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...purchased seven " 502's " and would start a regular around-the-world passenger service. The " 502's " are 502-ft. steamers, with a gross register of 10,533 tons, with a speed of about 14 knots, oil burners and all " President" ships. They are the Presidents Polk, Adams, Van Buren, Monroe, Garfield, Hayes, Harrison. The five first are now plying between New York and London, a money-losing route, and will be supplanted by freight vessels as soon as the Summer tourist season is past. The two last are plying between the Pacific Coast and the east coast...
When the President Polk sailed for Europe a reporter approached one of the passengers and asked his name. The individual replied...
Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Anderson, Special Assistant Attorney General, contends that the patents then bought by the Chemical Foundation should be returned to the Government: 1) because Under Secretary of State Frank L. Polk in signing the authorization for sale for President Wilson (who was then ill) was misled, 2) because the price paid was ridiculously low, 3) because the President did not have authority to make the sale, 4) because the sale was a conspiracy (Francis P. Garvan who became Alien Property Custodian about that time later became President of the Chemical Foundation), 5) because the sale was fraudulent...
...Government's case has had several setbacks. The first came when Mr. Polk on the stand vigorously denied that he was misled or poorly informed in signing the order for the sale of the patents...
Howard Chandler Christy, commissioned recently to paint the portrait of President Harding has been asked to paint the portraits of six other Presidents of the United States: the two Adams, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Garfield. These portraits will hang in the salons of the "President Fleet" of the United States Shipping Board-which will carry Mr. Christy's fame even farther than American magazines have carried it already...