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...Aberdeen, S. Dak. a cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend...
John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...
Three days later British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham crossed the Channel with 40 British staff officers including General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. Chief of the Imperial Gen eral Staff, and set out from Paris as guests of the French General Staff for a four-day tour of the Franco-Belgian frontier and Wartime battlefields...
...General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel's family motto appealed to him: "We fear no King, nor any devil; only God when He is just...
...came Gorton-Pew's roughest times. Foreign contracts were cancelled and fish dropped. The company reported a big loss and its bankers shoved out Gen eral Manager Carroll, replacing him with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even...