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...Follies out of the fireplace and answers it. Eventually, an exciting correspondence develops between her and a young engineer in South America who is under the delusion that he is writing to the Follies lady. When he invents a new kind of switch and comes to New York to confer with the New York Central Railroad, the complications begin, which carry every one back to Peru for the last act. This last act, by the way, is just a bit fanciful to say the least. Miss Binney follows the engineer, who persistently and quite unnaturally refuses to take any notice...
...Pope will hold a public consistory for the creation of cardinals. It is firmly believed that he will confer the red hat upon at least one and probably two American prelates. The most likely recipients are Archbishops Hanna of San Francisco, Mundelein of Chicago, Hayes of New York...
...Headline GOD FORBID!, The New York Evening World published an editorial which said: 'Hiram Johnson's notion of a foreign policy for the United States boils down to this: Never go near a "council" table at which any other nation has a right to speak. Never confer. Never listen. The attitude of the United States toward other nations must always be: "We do not argue with you. We tell you." Debate is unAmerican. . . . Watch for earthquakes, famines and the like. These visitations afford a chance to point to good-samaritanism. . . . Never try to understand Europe. ... Be as selfish...
...Committee is planning to arrange through its Secretary, Mr. Leighton, for meetings between graduates in responsible business or professional positions and undergraduates who have indicated by means of answers to the questionnaire their interest in the particular kind of activity on which they will be given an opportunity to confer...
...until the present time. It is allegedly because of the lack of them that King George is about to make his youngest sons, aged 23 and 20 respectively, dukes; more probably, however, it is because it has been customary since 1337, when the first dukedom was created (Cornwall), to confer dukedoms upon the sons of the reigning monarch...