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First - "Sure. See down here in the right-hand corner on the back side where it's signed -Treasurer of the United States
...Samborski '31 is scheduled to pitch for the 1931 nine today. Samborski is not only a capable right-hand flinger but in the Middlesex contest furnished the fireworks with a circuit clout and a triple. B.H. Bassett '31 and E.J. DesRoches '31 are other heavy-hitters who should make things difficult for the Grotonian hurlers this afternoon...
...sister, who was at the White House: 'Come on over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...Nicaragua (TIME. Nov. 29). The President was riding alone in his carriage at 11 p. m. when two men armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell upon the attackers. Maddened, they felled him, slashed off his hands, his nose, gouged out his eyes. . . . As policemen arrived the two attackers fled...