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From Jamaica and Cuba comes sweet, potent rum to London. It is stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted...
Vice President Curtis opened the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania last week with his first speech since August, at Fogelsville where Boss Matthew Quay started the custom of starting campaigns in 1908. Since he declared Dry in his speech accepting renomination, many a Wet Pennsylvania Republican had protested the Vice President's appearance in the State. Nominee Curtis, canny politician, ducked Prohibition, talked tariff and farm relief, deluged his listeners with his favorite statistics...
...coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where four indomitable policemen waited on the quay. Nine foreign members of the crew and one Dutch sailor were arrested as agitators. The rest of the 200 crewmembers went to their homes, faced with prosecution later for disobeying orders...
...late James Gillespie Elaine, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such as corduroys and sturdy boots. Most of them like their new President Hutchison because, though he has no hobbies, no sports, he shows an earnest, agreeable interest in their games. In recent college elections the non-fraternity students...
...post he has ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week...