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...With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs...
...Chicago Stock Yards early Saturday afternoon. Outside the building two men stopped him, flashed gold badges. "We're government men," said they, "looking for an escaped convict." Laschetzke took them up to his apartment. There they pulled guns. Laschetzke, his wife and mother were marched down to the second-floor apartment. With two other tenants they were herded into a bathroom. All visitors of the evening, including two children, were imprisoned with them...
Meanwhile six more men had entered the house. They carried boxes of heavy equipment. Neighbors thought they were only 'leggers. In the second-floor parlor they sawed a three-foot square in the hardwood floor. Beneath that they pierced 18 inches of brick. Acetylene torches next cut through a layer of steel. Through the hole beneath yawned the vault of Koch & Co., real estate firm, on the ground floor...
...Hall, a full two stories in height, and lighted on the eastern side by three large windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west passage leading to the Great Hall a bust of Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been placed in a niche...
...American sway, its end is near. Betty Bronson, obscure child of cinema chance, whom Barrie picked for the part from a photograph, will be the Peter the present and succeeding generations of U. S. childhood will cherish. From the greatest cavern of the city auditorium to the stuffy second-floor hall of the farm village Miss Bronson will scatter her gospel. She will scatter it through the medium of an uncannily adapted personality blended into a great picture that is at once beautiful, wise and faithful to its great tradition...