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...lady don't want to move, don't she?" said Earl Fred to Harry Trimmer. "Well, courtesy don't cost nothing," and he turned to the assembled newspapermen...
...seems that the whole press of the United States has given me the honor of a call this morning," said the President to about 100 newspapermen who trooped into his office...
...their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which he was largely instrumental in negotiating...
Lifeboats. On solid land, in Astoria, Anthony J. Lewkowicz, designer of the lifeboat davits and skids with which the Vestris was equipped, gave audience to newspapermen. He declared the lifeboats were unsinkable, the tackle was foolproof. Said he: "With my davits a boat with a full load can be launched safely by one man ... in spite of 32-degree list. . . . The average time is 15 seconds." But lifeboats did capsize and sink; tackle fouled and broke; and some boats, manned by fools or not, took two hours to launch...
...packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...