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...south end of the room, unsurrounded, in careful formation, stand four people. The reception guest suddenly recognizes the President. The next figure is, of course, the First Lady. Between them and the guest is a military aide, and behind the aide, at the President's elbow, a bodyguard...
...Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White House with eight trunks, and the appearance of astute C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia politician-Secretary, at the Presidential elbow. Came William Morgan Butler, manufacturer and campaign manager, not yet dreaming of the Senate...
...beauty of Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope...
...memories crowded at Mr. Root's elbow: McKinley's Cabinet meetings in that stodgy second-story room of the White House; the new Cabinet room, later, under Roosevelt. President Coolidge relished these recollections...
...ceremony close to the heart of many a small boy. He became, last week, a tenderfoot Boy Scout. As U. S. President he will be Commander-in-Chief Scout. He stepped out of doors one bright morning and, with Mrs. Hoover ("the greatest Girl Scout of all") at his elbow, scrutinized the regimental front of 46 scout troops, Boys and Girls. Charles A. Miller, chief adult Scout of Dade County, made a speech. Then Adult Scout John C. Norsk saluted and presented wee Scout Charles A. Miller Jr. Gravely the little fellow saluted Mr. Hoover, drew himself up on tiptoe...