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...Into Lake Superior fled a deer. At it Winnebijou flung stones. Stones missed deer, but up sprang some islands, which centuries later White Man named Apostle Islands. The President was said to have discussed, last week, with Mrs. Coolidge the pros and cons of visiting the scene of this Chippewa legend. ¶With newsmen, the President's only weighty discussion concerned the Kellogg multilateral treaty. While no longer permitting newsmen to speak of him as a mere "spokesman" for himself, the President still refuses to be quoted directly, thus making it easier for him to deny anything which newsmen...
...every Chicagoan knows, Banker Traylor sprang from a strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After...
...France do not fight at the bedside of their sick mother! In the hour of crisis I grouped about me those who had opposed me. I do not regret my choice. Out of our collaboration and thanks to the yielding now of one side and now of the other sprang a new spirit of confidence and all that that made possible. Today the Cabinet of Sacred Union is more united than ever. We have only one regret-that the same union does not exist in the corridors of the Chamber. We will continue to govern with whatever majority follows...
...Howard had a program, he said. His program was to nominate for Vice President that tall 39-year-oldster Repre sentative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Mr. Fish who footballed at Harvard, is not a Negro. He is the third of a series of Hamilton Fishes who sprang from Nicholas Fish, a lieutenant-colonel in Washington's army. The first Hamilton Fish was Secre tary of State in Grant's Cabinet. Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish has yet to prove himself as sterling a statesman as his grandfather or as his father, who was speaker...
...with airlines. For four years, he planned T. A. T., Inc., with Mr. Keys and executives of the Santa Fe Railroad, Wright Aeronautical Corp., National Air Transport, Inc. (carriers of U. S. mail), and others. "The time is ripe . . .," said General Atterbury last week when T. A. T., Inc., sprang into the public eye as a $5,000,000 corporation and a board of directors which was worth noting as a group of U. S. air leaders...