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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate seat he has cut a hole about an inch square in the arm of his chair. As an orator he is given to long words...
...Washington he is rather a lonely man with few close friends. He lives at the Mayflower Hotel, keeps no car. (In Missouri he drives a Buick.) He works from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., returns to his office about four evenings a week "to catch up on him-self...
...County, Long Island, disclosed sufficient alcohol in his brain to indicate that he was drunk at the time of his crash (TIME, July 8, 15). Last week a Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner, held an inquest. The autopsy evidence was not offered in evidence. Witnesses who were close to Stultz before his fatal flight said they did not consider him drunk then. So the Coroner's decision was that Stultz died of a broken neck while doing a "falling leaf...
...actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes...
...directorate of the Association includes such names as Quincy Bent, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, Lawrence Aloysius Downs, President of Illinois Central, and Matthew Scott Sloan, president of New York Edison. Actual standardizing activities, however, will be carried on along the original engineering lines. The Association also announced a close contact with the U. S. Bureau of Standards, one of its directors being George Kimball Burgess, the Bureau of Standards head...