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...comment of Secretary. Wilbur would have led one to believe. The report of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, which-has just appeared, far from fulfilling Mr. Wilbur's predictions, might very well be called discouraging. While it is a long established custom for military and naval experts to wall and moan over the state of the country's armed forces, there is a dispassionate note of truth in the Commander-in-chief's report that carries conviction...
When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...
When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...
When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...
...company known as the Hearst Publications, Inc., which will acquire ownership of eleven Hearst publications, including the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Evening Herald, Oakland Post-Enquirer, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Motor and Motor Boating. A prominent firm of Wall Street investment bankers will underwrite and distribute a 6½% first mortgage issue of over $12,000,000 for the new holding company...