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...competition for the position of second assistant manager, open to Sophomores, begins with a short meeting at the H. A. A. at 1.15 o'clock today. "The competition," crew managers state, "offers an excellent opportunity to Sophomores, as it is the least arduous of all major sports competitions, lasting but six weeks...
Banker Gibson and Manufacturers Trust will make no money directly out of the liquidations. But in return for their arduous public service they will be well-paid in goodwill. Manufacturers, wishing to expand, will be in a position to take for its own such of the defunct flock as it wishes. A reason that Manufacturers is in a position to clean up so much scattered wreckage is that it has 52 widely scattered branches. As the wreckage is cleared, as the broken banks' depositors happily get back much of their $42,000,000, Manufacturers' branch managers will...
Having decided not to drop the old lady in midstream but to trudge on to shore, President Hoover had more trans-atlantic telephoning to do. Statesman Stimson had arrived in Paris from Italy. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was still resting at Cap Ferrat, after his arduous nocturnal negotiations on the debt holiday. After three long calls to Paris, President Hoover announced...
...detectives sit about in the White House lobby gossiping. Thus is many a little human interest story about the President brought to light. Most correspondents also have their special White House pipelines for news. It was to break up this system that President Hoover, his nerves frayed from his arduous debt negotiations, called in William H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service, and asked to know who was the White House "leak...
...half way around the world from New York (8,050 mi.) in 3 days, 19 hr. True, they were 28 hr. ahead of their "round-the-world-in-ten-days" schedule; true, too, that they had but eight hours sleep since leaving New York. But some of their most arduous traveling lay ahead of them over the unbroken forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East...