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Perched on a cornice in the private side passage, into which bulges the Chamber's semicircular wall, an observer would behold this year's line of march of the nation's highest court, as follows...
Brookhart: ". . . Dinners given by Wall Street gentlemen for the purpose of greeting newly elected Senators...
...into the rugged hand of Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart. Utah's lank Smoot was on the point of defending the Prohibition corps when Senator Brookhart suddenly interjected: "I should like to ask the Senator from Utah if he ever saw any signs of bootleggers around any Wall Street conventions at any of the hotels here in Washington...
...hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked when he would move from the Hotel Biltmore into his new Manhattan home (No. 51 Fifth Ave.). Said he, paying the ultimate tribute to Catherine Dunn ("Katie") Smith, "I will move when the last rug is laid, the last picture is on the wall and dinner is on the table...