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...about dusk yesterday a battery of cameras was gathered around University Hall to snap the notables as they emerged from the inauguration ceremonies, and especially to catch President Conant. While the photographers trained their instruments on the south entrance, a slim figure clad in a felt hat and gray overcoat with collar turned up, slipped down the north steps and disappeared from the Yard in the direction of Memorial Hall. Some ten minutes later the newshawks were glibly informed by a grinning Yard cop that the president had left...
Looking for the new president was a harder job than the six camera men of the Metropolitan press had bargained for. Aided and abetted by some of Colonel Apted's stout lieutenants, and disguised in a soft felt hat and a grey overcoat, President Conant slipped away in the twilight, unknown, unobserved, unphotoed. Where a President's son has failed, a full-fledged President has succeeded. That evens the score hereabouts...
Before the ship sale was completed, a $510 tailor bill for three suits and an overcoat for Chairman O'Connor found its way into the Export Steamship offices, was mysteriously paid with cash. President Herbermann swore he had not paid...
...years Edward Albert Ridley had put on his rubbers rain or shine, clapped on a bowler over his flowing white hair, muffled himself in an overcoat outside of which he arranged his long, curly white beard, and had taken an early train to New York from his boarding house in Fanwood, N. J. In Allen Street he let himself through his door, descended a long ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done...
...Matsuoka marched down a Manhattan gangplank last week and into a waiting automobile. Policemen were thick as flies "BOO! BOO! BOOOOO!" went a crowd of about 300 assorted Chinese and Communists. Patrolman John Ello took into custody one Lin Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There he sat down under a portrait of China's late great Li Hung-chang and awaited the Press...