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...Callers at the White House included : Congressman Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, to discuss methods of keeping the government appropriations within the revenue in the coming year; Kermit Roosevelt to tell the President about Ovis poli and the Himalayas (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE); a delegation from the American Legion to urge that a military guard be placed over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to preserve it from desecration (the President asked them to take up the matter with the Secretary of War-it would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation...
Last week another merchant was stricken with natural history fever. His case was more virulent than those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo...
...Capital than Hagerstown, Md. (TIME, Nov. 30). A most sensitive individual, M. Paderewski was revolted by the thought of charming dollars out of the pockets of statesmen whom he had known officially during his historic term as Prime Minister of Poland. Thus when Mrs. Coolidge entered her box at Poli's Theatre with Mmes. Dawes, Hoover, Longworth and Mr. John Coolidge, it was to hear him play for charity (American Legion Endowment Fund for Disabled Soldiers). Mrs. Dwight F. Davis had gone South, but gave her box to Princess Bibesco and Mmes. David A. Reed, Truxton Beale, Frederick Keep...
...gentleman from Ohio, whom the majority has elected as speaker, was endowed by nature with an aptitude for public affairs of a poli- tical character. He is today receiving the reward of years of struggle and effort...
...spirit of true science was with these politico-sportsman-adventurers. venturers. On first penetrating the Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...