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Magic Carpet. After this announcement, the only thing observers could do was sit back and marvel at the good fortune which had brought such a Report to Herbert Hoover. It was not a mere political platform, nailed down to girders of decision and principle. It was a magic carpet upon which any candidate for the Presidency in 1932 could fly now East, now West; now Dry, now Wet. Had President Hoover been so overweening as to ask Chairman Wickersham for a politically ideal report, Chairman Wickersham could not have complied more skilfully...
...played with Tom Shevlin and I think the world will never see a better end. . . . What a job . . . Pennock [did to us] in 1912. . . . Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
Elected. Charles Anderson Boston, 67. of Manhattan; to be president of the American Bar Association, succeeding the late Josiah Marvel, of Wilmington. He is a member of the American Law Institute, committeeman of the New York State Bar association, vice president of the New York County Lawyers Association...
Died. Josiah Marvel, 64, leading attorney of Wilmington, Del, president of the American Bar Association, unsuccessful candidate last month for Democratic nomination for the Senate; suddenly, of heart failure, at his home in Greenville...
Detroit Catholics went to marvel at the dedication of a church architecturally unique in the land last week, the new French Romanesque St. Aloysius on downtown Detroit's famed Washington Boulevard ("most brilliantly lighted street in the world"). Unique feature: the seating arrangement. Old St. Aloysius, built in 1861,* torn down last spring, seated only 728 worshipers. On the same site, new St. Aloysius accommodates...