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...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...
...none too laudable example of the way in which that part of Commencement may be conducted. The excellence of the individual speeches was somewhat wasted on an over-large expanse of grey concrete. Even the bowl end of the Stadium, as used for these exercises, is quite cheerless unless generously filled by the fair onlookers who smilingly await the 'three times three for the ladies' given by the marching alumni on the turf below. The parade itself was too a small, largely because many of the alumni had Class Day afternoon scheduled as an afternoon in the country...
Weasel Mellon. If to most Englishmen Ambassador Mellon's words sounded vague and cheerless, a famed Welshman did not hesitate to-attack him openly. In a new book published last week, Mr. David Lloyd George called him a weasel, thus...
Board Troubles. Cheerless last week was the Federal Farm Board's first birthday. During the year Chicago wheat had tumbled from $1.20 per bu to 86¢. The Board had sunk $75,000,000 in the purchase of 60,000,000 bu. of 1929 wheat on which it stood to lose $35,000,000. Farm prices were at their lowest level in eight years...
...luxurious Malmaison but to chill, cheerless Sante Prison went Clemenceau's Klotz. When merciless reporters sought out "Tiger" Clemenceau himself, he shook his shaggy head impatiently and snarled...