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Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...
...thing which made M. F. P. possible was that Harry Bridges of the powerful Longshoremen's Union backed big, tough Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union for first president of the federation. Independent as Robinson Crusoe, Lundeberg cared little when his union was booted out of A. F. of L. But when his sailors voted to join C. I. O. he promptly locked the votes up in a San Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West...
...England in 1831. Another wave spread to Mecca, Egypt, England and, in 1832, to the U. S. Last of successive pandemics touched the U. S. as late as 1911, and the disease has been kept out of the country since only by close medical inspection of every sailor and traveler who enters a U. S. port...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...
...usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since Tsarist days...