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Once again President Roosevelt has sent to London his grey and graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis who landed in England from S. S. Manhattan last week with Admiral William Harrison Standley, the always crisp and often scathing Chief of U. S. Naval Operations. Same day there landed from...
...anticipation fill the camp. A huge gaunt figure, hatless and cloakless, sweeps imperiously on a white charger to the front of the newly formed platoons. This man commands attentions, respect, admiration, fear. Ranks become straighter, shoulders stiffer, guns arched higher. His voice booms like a cannon through the crisp morning air: "Comrades, this is an historic moment. All Europe watches us today. Victory means freedom from the treacherous claws of Louis of France . . . if we loss our lives, our Country and our homes are the pledge . . Every man will be expected to do his duty. I will do mine...
...most spectacular job was in 1921 when she crossed the Atlantic steerage, disguised as an Irish immigrant, went through the Ellis Island mill, reported her experiences. A frequent guest at diplomatic dinners, attractive "Geno" Herrick has amassed a wealth of Washington personalia which she reports in crisp, good-humored style. Excerpts from her first columns in the News...
...Crisp and formal in blue serge and high wing collar, Premier John Brownlee of the Province of Alberta sat in court at Edmonton last week with his sweetly sedate wife to hear himself accused of "enticement and seduction...
Bishops, their elections, terms of office and retirements. Most prominent figure at the conference was Dr. John W. Perry of Tennessee, chairman of the potent Committee on Episcopacy. A lean, crisp-voiced, white-mustached, Virginia-born minister, Dr. Perry has long worked for home missions and Negro education, was once called by a well-meaning Negro pastor "a friend whose skin is white but whose heart is black...