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...issue which reached the U. S. last week displayed a telephoto of the California earthquake, shots of the Cambridge crew, the running of the United Hunts' Challenge Cup, fashion, disaster and cinema pictures, and a fine photograph of Private Cruddas of the ist Green Howards belting Private Alexandra of the ist Oxon & Bucks in a boxing match. The magazine is published weekly in London, costs sixpence...
Country clubs were torn into factions, Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring...
With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
Friends of the B. E. F. set up the following facts in rebuttal: i) The ist Amendment to the Constitution ("Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances") does not specify that Congress must be in session for such assembly and petition. 2) The Government buildings from which veterans were ejected remain untouched and unworked after five weeks. 3) Every veteran arrested as a rioting Red has been released for lack of evidence; three veterans indicted for assaulting police had good overseas records...
...Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Dispatch appeared this advertisement: "Anyone interested in adopting a baby at birth around October ist. write Box 497, care Ledger-Dispatch...