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...Roosevelt acquired an additional host of distinguished enemies. Last week he added a few more, making it crystal clear that he proposed to run his power lines by the same old sights. The occasion was a peace offer made by the public utility industry in the person of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Mr. McCarter went to the White House to present a formal memorial to the President. Excerpts...
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...been carefully packed and dispatched to Washington in Army trucks, along with trunks of clothes, boxes of books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan had been picked to take...
...Dike, five-year-old race horse owned by John J. Nesbitt: the Cooperstown Steeplechase, at Saratoga Springs. The favorite, The Ace II, fell at the second jump. Autumn Bells then got a long lead, seemed sure to win until he fell at the 13th fence. Eiderbard, ahead at the 16th jump, ran off the course and was brought back in time to finish second to Van Dike, by 50 lengths...
...Nesbitt E. Allen, U. S. citizen, rancher of Santa Clara province, put in the first claim for damages. Insurrectos had swept down on him, seized his horses, provisions and a stock of dynamite he kept for stone quarrying. Nesbitt E. Allen added it all up and forwarded a bill to President Machado...