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...Cockiest of the services is the rough, tough Marine Corps, whose boast is that its men are born looking for a fight. Limited to 20% of Navy personnel, the Marine Corps's strength was recently raised from 25,000 men to 34,000. Last week its roster was full. The Navy, with only 53,000 recruits to go to fill its authorized quota of 193,000, was in no hurry to get them, figured that next March would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army...
...Kansas, a somewhat baffled Alf Landon introduced the utilities executive as the "vigorous, energetic and amazing Wendell Willkie." Said Mr. Willkie to Alf Landon and a Kansas crowd: "I'm the cockiest fellow you ever saw. If you want to vote for me, fine. If you don't, go jump in the lake and I'm still...
...into the Yard dressed in finery like the cockiest London beau to see the carriages, chaires, and omnibuses of all description trundling into the village. Would seem the throng number over a thousand spectators. Now came C. Austin, Jr., all abubble, and with him on past the gate to watch the festivities. Saw Mr. Emery of Philadelphia, the oldest graduate present, looking very touched yet happy at the affair...
...onetime boy-prodigy, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., has been the cockiest and brainiest of the Roosevelt brain trust. He accepted, last week, the office of City Chamberlain on condition that the office eventually be abolished and that its salary meanwhile be curtailed. Mr. Berle has a teaching job at Columbia, a private law practice, is in demand as an author of newspaper articles and must be available for duty at the White House as well as at City Hall...
...cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York. N. Y., master locksmith, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might...