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...There is no mystery. These transplanted gentlemen have not, by magic, become genii of finance or statesmanship, but they have found in their new offices some unassuming woman who knows what it's all about and carries on. I could name a dozen such cases, but I won't. Custom has hallowed the procedure. . . . When all this emergency is over, there will be a sudden realization that it was women who implemented . . . the New Deal...
This mixed sextet announced the formation of the American Liberty League, which, following the custom of the day, promptly became known as ALL. The purpose of this "nonpartisan organization" was "to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and to gather and disseminate information that 1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property...
Before Endeavour left Gosport, England last fortnight Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. received a cable: "Can you please refit Endeavour when she arrives?Sopwith." Although it is contrary to custom for a challenger and defender to be refitted at the same yards, the shipyard cabled that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder...
...Orleans tagging dutifully along, appeared at Hilo on the opposite side of the island for the ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
...STRANGLED WITNESS&151;Leslie Ford&151;Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Lobbying and espionage in Washington prove lethal as well as lucrative. The murder of the blonde young widow was solved only because Col. Primrose remembered odors and an old custom...