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...sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens pro-Trotsky Socialists who came to cheer, pro-Stalin Communists who came to boo, were both kept from the pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried ashore for a quick motor ride to Sorrento...
...documents himself but now maintains a sizeable research staff. Intensely secretive, only he can tell how many of his big suits were settled out of court. Officials of a company with branches scattered throughout South America remember that a Venner disciple discovered he was entitled, as a stockholder, to inspect all the books-and demanded his right. After balancing the costs of transporting records from all its remote branches to Manhattan and back, the officers decided to pay the disciple's price for his few shares...
...next forty-five minutes a last look in cast over the first lesson for the day, and finishing touches are put on the room; for sometime during the morning, a Regular Army officer will inspect rooms to see that every article is in its designated place and that the room is absolutely free of dust and dirt. Then class call sounds and the cadets form in sections according to academic rank in that subject and march to the classroom...
...five. A chicken dinner, cooking since 5 a. m.. was served at tables on the lawn. Smacking over it Governor Roosevelt told his host: "I've eaten a lot of meals since I left home but this is the best yet." Afterwards he was driven out to inspect barn, hog lot. corn crib, silo, tractor, threshing machine. "Mighty fine! Mighty fine!" the Governor repeated. "You know. I've lived on a farm for 50 years." Mrs. Roosevelt gamely climbed barbed-wire fences. At the thresher the entire party was deluged with chaff. Before Governor Roosevelt started back to Omaha...
...show business, had taken the stump once more. No candidate himself, he was urging the re-election of twotime (1921-29) Governor Lennington Small. the character who was indicted, tried and made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer. He and they stood in line on deck to shake hands with the muddy-footed electorate. Filing awkwardly past, the electorate was then shoved onto a government barge...