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...Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain of news," he said, tossing his head in the direction of the President's office...
...Jones made them cringe again by showing them two bombs full of blindex, gas invented by Dr. Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
...splendid Treasury." he said, to remind people why the Budget Bureau was established, "is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels...
...five days Schubert requiems were held in Vienna, Schubert symphonies played in the concert halls, Schubert songs sung in schools, over the radio. Outstanding was the visit to the grave by Austrian officials and ten German mayors, the unveiling of a fountain in his memory. Vienna paid Schubert scant notice when he lived. Now, 100 years dead, he is indeed...
...Soda Fountain. Said Capt. C. W. Gilbert of the Panama Mail Line's Venezuela, last week, "I have watched American citizens when they had every opportunity to drink hard liquor if they wished. Most of them just don't do it." Impressed, company directors installed a soda fountain on his ship, were gratified when it reported $100 business between New York and the Pacific Coast...