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Skipper Roosevelt was coasting up Cape Cod toward the Pilgrim Tower at its tip when the Bernadou sped up from behind, put Assistant Secretary of State Moley aboard the Amberjack II for an hour's talk with the President. Mumbling polite nothings to the Press, Braintruster Moley flew off in a blue Naval seaplane for New York where he sailed next day for the London Economic Conference...
...earnest & sincere, and his strange assortment of colleagues worked to evolve belatedly a program on which the whole U. S. Delegation could stand. That job took nearly three days last week. Meanwhile the Conference cocked apprehensive eyes on the new, slim, swift U. S. cabin liner Manhattan as she sped toward England...
...Bunker Hill holiday) as Franklin Roosevelt and his eldest son motored through the streets accompanied by motorcycles and a mounted escort. Followed by Governor Ely of Massachusetts, they drove through Concord to Groton. Too late to see his wife (who had been there the day before but sped off to New York on her own rapid itinerary), the President stopped in his car before the house of Mrs. William F. Horton to greet his benign, white-haired mother who was staying there, then drove on half a mile to the school...
...bulb of the Dutch company. In Andover, N. J., Westinghouse was demonstrating the uses of the strange light in interior illumination. In Schenectady, General Electric installed 22 of its own sodium vapor lamps on a section of the Balltown Road, watched startled motorists gape at the lights as they sped down the saffron-colored highway...
...Manhattan, Albert Mailloux and George Beauchamp delivered a truckload of shirts to Dresswell Shirts, Inc. As they waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...