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After he was elected President four years ago, Herbert Hoover got on a battleship and cruised around South America to rest and to allay hostile economic feelings engendered by the policies of Calvin Coolidge. After he was nominated for President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt got on a 40-ft. yawl and cruised around New England co rest and to allay hostile political feelings engendered by his defeat of Alfred Emanuel Smith at the Chicago convention...
...friends, goes to visit her employer, on business of course, in his pent house. It is not a usual pent house at all, for it opens out on an African Zoo which the employer explains away by his passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake to the wrong lot. The employer proves to be a lecherous old party and real damage is only prevented by the arrival of a very righteous and breathless hero...
...cease entirely or are to be followed by no changes of territory, the Pact of Paris, with an interpretation whereby the signatories are under no obligation to prevent war, yet are at liberty to disregard its results, might well create more causes of strife than it would allay. It would signify that any nation could repudiate its treaties, and disregard those made by others, on the ground of duress...
...both. the Philadelphia Grand Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra would come to Radio City for guest performances while continuing to give their regular seasons at home. Exchange visits would be arranged with "whatever company is installed in Radio City," he said, perhaps with the Chicago Civic Opera too. To allay one practical difficulty of such a scheme, stage dimensions will be the same in Radio City's opera house as in Philadelphia's new Temple of Music...
Ostensibly to allay their uncertainty was formed last week a new organization, Bridge Headquarters, Inc. in which Sidney Lenz, Wilbur Whitehead, Milton Work and other experts planned to sacrifice their individual systems to form a universal bidding system for everyone to use. The Bridge Headquarters v. Culbertson controversy became a major bridge issue last week when five experts resigned from the Culbertson edited Bridge World to join the new organization...