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Last week his hopes for a summer recess from conferences, official calls, paper work and Washington's weather finally materialized. Wearing his weariness with a jaunty and well-pressed air, he boarded the 244-ft. presidential yacht Williamsburg, set out on a dawdling, 18-day cruise into New England waters...
Last week in Washington dignified Elisha Walker got in to see the Mead Committee, just under the wire of its recess for one month. He informed the war profits investigators that slick Murray Garsson had got the $5,000 on a note signed by Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; then both had reneged on paying off the loan...
...careful attention to each speaker, applauding after every speech. Herbert Morrison, the unpopular Lord President of the Council, sums up the government views, and launching off on a tangent, is almost caught up by opposition speakers, but is saved by a ruling from the speaker. As dinnertime approaches, a recess is declared and the members quickly empty the chamber...
Education was represented by a re-enactment of Harvard's first commencement exercises, presided over by President Dunster, Governor Winthrop, and Thomas Shepard. According to the narrator, the ceremonies included three hours of "convivialty" in the Yard during a recess from the lengthy speeches...
...lack of trying. And how were Orientals ever to fathom the inscrutable Western mind? Fifteen long blocks from the Diet Chamber, in the courtroom where Jap war criminals were being tried, spectators stood stiffly at attention as the judges filed out for the noon recess. The marshal of the court, Captain Donald S. Van Meter, rose and solemnly announced: "For the benefit of English-speaking persons, Louis won over Conn by a knockout in the eighth round...