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Despite the gloomy outlook of the hotel business last week neither Lucius Boomer nor Oscar was downhearted as the day approached when Banker Charles Hayden would start the register with his name and be given credit card No. 1. Average figures from the depressed hotel industry did not daunt them, for, they were glad to assert, the new Waldorf-Astoria is not an average hotel, cannot be judged by average standards...
...price slump did not daunt Mr. Legge. Sure that rock bottom had been hit, he declared: "If I were a miller, I'd want my tanks filled to capacity at present prices."* He thought if planters would announce agreement to a reduction program, prices would immediately start upward. His first stop was at Indianapolis to confer with growers of winter wheat. Thence his itinerary would take him through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington...
...much blame should not be laid upon Harvard men for pleading guilty to the indictments of the Vassar Miscellany, quoted elsewhere in these columns. Coming from an institution so much less physical, it is not at all surprising that the sudden metamorphosis to Poughkeepsie life should daunt all but the boldest or best conditioned of males...
...Defendant Remus's description of how he spent last Christmas in prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
Divorced. Sir Richard Robert Cruise, oculist to His Majesty George V; from Lady Margery Barbara Cruise. Sir Guy Daunt, retired admiral and onetime M. P. was named as corespondent...