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...Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt...
...TIME is one of four or five periodicals in America fit for persons of intelligence to read. . . . Particularly do I like your novel phrasing, your occasional Dutch lead, your informality, your nonchalant and indifferent manner of treating a man's religion as if you are referring to his ham and eggs of the previous breakfast, your picture captions, your very illuminating footnotes, your kidding of correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either be right or wrong, and most particularly do I delight in your sophistry in an age when the daily papers...
...Nodded approval as the Ministry of Health suppressed the Municipal Guardians of West Ham, famed constituency of John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite M. P., raucous boor. The Guardians of West Ham, ardent Laborites, had been paying "unemployment doles" to able-bodied men on a scale higher than their wages when employed. As a result the community is reported in debt...
...182Noted that Lady Astor remained straight lipped, even when Jones achieved the excruciating West Ham witticism of shouting at Home Secretary ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks: "You're getting coal every day from filthy German Huns to break the coal strike! All right! Get your coal from Hell...
...menu: Breakfast- Rolled oats with milk and sugar, Parker House rolls, butter, coffee and jelly. Dinner-Fried pork chops, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, bread, cottage pudding and coffee. Supper-Cold lunch, ham, stewed fruit, bread...