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Next morning he was up & around again as a man of affairs. With his house guest, Harry Hopkins, he talked over the future of the nearby Passamaquoddy tidal power project, now that Congress has definitely refused to authorize funds for its completion. Then, with his family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake...
There is no Hell in Michigan and officially there never was one.* In 1841 Storekeeper George Reeves and his brother-in-law, Timothy Allison, of Pinckney, Mich., bought a nearby section on a lake, set some 75 men to work building a dam, mill, distillery, house and store. Shortly after the distillery started, the Government ordered revenue stamps on whiskey. According to one legend, Squire Reeves snorted: "This is hell!" According to another, Squire Reeves, when asked to name his community, replied: "I don't care what you call it; call it Hell if you like." In any case...
...past nine years has taken the form of prodigious ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches...
...fifth set. When Crawford & Quist managed to win this one also, and with it the match, 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, the result of the American Zone final, barring miracles, was certain. No miracles occurred. Next day, Crawford beat Allison 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, While they played their match, Quist was lying down in his room in the clubhouse listening to the radio broadcast, confident that since Australia had won the series, not he but Alternate Vivian McGrath would be sent to the court to play against Budge. Bundled...
...time the litigation was scheduled to appear in Manhattan, President Fish and the Omaha bondholders had come to terms. Meanwhile a third investors' faction headed by Allison L. Bayles, Manhattan investment banker, and counseled by Attorney Bruce Tuttle, had appeared. Its announced objective: To do away with W. N. U.'s present management, bring in as head man John Holliday Perry, president of American Press Association, country weekly advertising representatives. Counting noses for this fight, President Fish said he had 1,000 of the 1,200 bondholders on his side. Unable to get even a list of bondholders...