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...from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business. He bought the third automobile ever imported into Britain, built up a private collection of pipes second only to that in the British Museum. After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies. In 1905, he sold out his Dunhill Motorities with its slogan of "Everything But the Car" to concentrate on his hobby of tobacco blending...
...linen closet will be sacrificed this week because the Lowell House Committee needs permanent quarters...
...Friday, 6:30 a. m. you will be awakened by waiters bringing breakfast. . . . Do not bring more than two extra suits of clothes-one will be sufficient. Six changes of linen will be plenty. We will have overnight pressing service four of the five nights we will be away from home. . . . Not necessary to carry a dinner coat. With these instructions in their pockets, 13 of the Administration's more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper...
...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
Significant Battleships. Directly after his inaugural Provisional President de Cespedes, still sweating profusely, changed into a suit of white linen, enlivened by glistening tan shoes and an orange-striped shirt. "The people of Cuba desired the re-establishment of normal conditions," he told U. S. correspondents in perfect English, "and they acted almost unanimously in the quick, effective manner necessary to their...