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...Windsor a tweed-capped workman climbed a stepladder in St. George's Chapel (lodge room of the Knights of the Garter), took down the armorial banner of the Duke of Windsor above his stall (first on the right) and moved it three places down the line. This meant that in the ritual of the Garter and in the British peerage, the Duke of Windsor would rank fourth, after the King and his brothers Gloucester and Kent, so that even should Wallis Warfield be accorded rank as a royal duchess there would be no chance of her taking precedence over...
...major constructive measures set for action this session-wage & hour regulation, low-cost housing, executive reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court monkey wrench, gummed by the perplexities of Economy. But for all the disaffection created by the Court issue, and for all its readiness to differ with the President on ways to Economy, Congress had apparently been...
...famed trait of taking the lead at the start, keeping it to the finish. Like Man o' War, War Admiral has a slightly peevish disposition. Much of the eight-minute delay at last week's start was caused by his reluctance to stay in his stall...
...telegram from a horse last week. The horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
When 250 ft. from the ground he pulled the cord of his emergency 'chute. It also failed, opening only enough to foul the canvas wings, thus prevent him from desperately attempting his prime ambition -a stall landing without aid from a parachute. Said a witness: "When I realized Clem Sohn was doomed, I felt worse than ever during the World War. . . . The hush coming over the crowd was the most impressive thing I have ever seen. . . . And when Clem Sohn hit the ground, it sounded like an explosion...