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There was the line, the widows from Winsor: "Oh, how do you do, Mr. Smythe. Indeed I do remember you!" But it's Smith, Madam; as in Smithsonian, you know. "Smithsonian? Indeed I have seen it. Rare specimens there; yes, yes." And there were the ushers unctuous and important with gardenias. There was the music of an orchestra, and the husky crone of a singer: There was "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life", there was, "The Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing...
...Business Historical Society likewise has its office within Baker Library, with a Smithsonian complex for preserving all items relating to business history...
...large part of it preparing a radio speech to the Young Democrats in Milwaukee (see p. 10); saw a delegation of Congressmen about some bills that were failing; signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities...
...Smithsonian Institution last week began to set up beside its model of the Leviathan an 18-ft. 5,200 lb. model of the late British liner Mauretania, received with the compliments of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Last week, for the Committee's tenth conference, expectancy ran unusually high. Its chairman, Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, president of Johns Hopkins University, had just received from Chancellor Charles Evans Hughes of the Smithsonian Institution aviation's highest technical award-the Langley Gold Medal for Aerodromics, previously awarded only six times since its establishment...