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...Please be good enough to communicate my good wishes and the assurance of my deep interest in the purposes of the gathering which is being held today by the leaders of the industrial and engineering activities of the country. The national power in these departments is one of our firmest reliances for prosperity and security...
...have the firmest conviction it will do so. Germany will keep the faith. It at length has a practical inducement to do so, for its responsible men hitherto have felt that Germany has been asked to fulfill impossible conditions. America's part in bringing them about, which is freely acknowledged throughout Germany, is not the least of its reasons for making a sincere and earnest effort to carry out the Dawes plan in letter and in spirit...
LAZY LAUGHTER-Woodward Boyd -Scribner ($2.00). The Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago...
Nine-Inch Tee. The notable feature of the British mixed foursome tournament was a nine-inch tee employed by one M. D. Auckland. Though the dizzy elevation enabled him to develop prodigious distance on the drive, Mr. Auckland's fairway shots were fallible. The firmest lie on the finest carpet looked to him like a niblick shot...
...Strauss and Laffont in affirming their intention of standing by the Premier called him " the firmest of all Republicans and the greatest of all Frenchmen...