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...craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised, Alexander Throttlebottom was finally hauled into the dory after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped...
...Moslems, 19,000 assorted Christians. Fortnight ago when Lord Allenby ap peared in Jerusalem, there were angry mutterings in Arab newspapers. Veiled Moslem women paraded making bitter speeches. To them it seemed that the Y. M. C. A. planned to proselytize with its fine new building. But they were mis taken. And other Jerusalemites were less truculent because they had already seen how the Y. M. C. A. operates...
...term has recently been completed. On November 17, John T. Flynn, author of "God's Gold: John D. Rockefeller and His Times" and a well known financial publicist, will speak. His subject will be the significance of the Kreuger and Insull cases and other recent instances of financial mis-management...
...observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate, by some 2,000 votes. Maine's former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster received his third big political setback. Running for Congress, he was beaten by John...
...whose shallows he could not long imagine himself out of his depth. He was fond of her, in a more and more managerial way, but he could not quite put out of his memory his first love, Lucy, whose brusque disappearance he had never understood. Like other fundamentally mis-married men, Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children as Catholics she was downright upset. Her vulgar...