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...five dramatic hours fully 1,000.000 Russians striding 75 abreast surged like a broad, human river past Stalin. Of the marchers 40,000 were picked Red Army troops. They marched and wheeled in perfect parade formation to a crunching accompaniment of fast Red Army caterpillar tanks, some mounting 2-in. guns. Leading the parade on a prancing cavalry charger rode red-faced, ham-fisted War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, bowing and grinning, cheered as loudly on this day as the Red Dictator himself...
Alongside the control car, an envied company of eight white-uniformed officers & 51 enlisted men, nucleus of the Akron's personnel, were to stand rigidly abreast of their skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. An orchestra of 500 high-school pupils was to render "The Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring...
...themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast of rank after rank of Poznan citizens most of them shouted: "Long live Paderewski!", a few "Long live Mrs. Wilson," none shouted "Long live President Moscicki." The President. Mrs. Wilson and friends rode on through the streets...
...Grand last. They stayed in practically the same positions with Twenty Grand running easily and well behind the leaders as he did in the Derby, till the last turn. Then Twenty Grand and Sun Meadow began to move up and the three horses came into the stretch almost exactly abreast. In front of the stands, it suddenly seemed that Jamestown and Sun Meadow were racing on a treadmill. Twenty Grand ran a length, two lengths, three lengths ahead of them, crossed the finish line eight lengths ahead of Sun Meadow who had beaten Jamestown by a nose. Twenty Grand...
...term before. In none of the 113 cases which will go over to the next term has counsel filed briefs or made any argument. To Chief Justice Hughes goes chief credit for the court's dispatch. Following the methods of William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week or so, winnowing out the real questions from the dilatory technicalities. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court refused to consider Albert Bacon Fall's bribery review after his petition had been...