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...prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high...
...many people have been lynched in Texas since Mrs. Ferguson took office? (See LYNCHING...
...final flourish which the Emperor Vespasian made when, in his last moments, he whispered apropos of the customary deflection of the Emperors. "Methinks I am becoming a god." So this morning at 9 o'clock I shall, in memory of this old gentleman, visit Sever 18, to hear Professor Ferguson in History 3b lecture on the Flavian emperors...
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...included Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (Governess Ferguson was omitted; from Texas was chosen Florence P. Sterling, an officer of the Humble Oil Co.); Reah H. Whitehead, a justice of the peace from Washington; Mary M. Bartelme, a judge of the Chicago Juvenile Court; Izetta Jewell Brown, a politician from West Virginia (TIME, June 2, 1924)?business women, club women, attorneys, doctors, authors, editors, educators?all the usual and unusual occupations ranging to Elizabeth Daingerfield, Kentucky breeder of fine horses...