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...GREAT BETRAYAL−Edward Hale...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York; Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; the Countess of Amherst; Karl Bauer, famed German publicist; Hale Hamilton, playwright, with his wife, Grace La Rue, singer; George H. Doran, famed publisher; Ben Ali Haggin, designer of Ziegfeld tableaux; Arthur Hopkins, producer; John Conley, "tin foil king"; Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, wife of the famed banker, with their 17-year-old son, Roger W. Kahn, famed saxophone player and jazz leader; Mortimer Slater, Editor of the Jewish Morning Journal...
Some one had been caught napping. Senator King of Utah had been lying in wait for the bill. But he left the Chamber for a moment. Senator Borah was supposed to be on guard to see that the bill did not pass. He spoke to Senator Hale, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, and had an understanding that the bill would not be brought up at that time. So he, too, left the chamber...
Just 'before six in the evening, prior to the dinner recess, when only a very few Senators remained in the chamber, Senator Hale brought up the bill and it was passed. Shortly afterward Senator King rushed in and made a motion to reconsider the bill. His motion was still pending at seven o'clock the next day when the Senate adjourned. Consequently, the bill was not sent to the President, who had indicated his intention of signing...
...George Ellery Hale, director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, writing in Scribner's Magazine (June), tells what is now known about sun spots. Sun spots are believed to be (though no astronomer is certain about it) regions of incandescent gas on the sun's surface, whirling with a centrifugal motion. Although they are really brighter and hotter than the most powerful electric light, they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting...