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...Congress the President sent a vigorous message urging an end to the "subterfuge" of ocean mail contracts, the "failure'' of Federal loans for shipbuilding. In their stead he proposed a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers. ¶At his first press conference after his return to the White House from Hyde Park the President paternally suggested to the assembled newshawks that they buy the Government's new baby bonds (see p. 63). From the back of the room pert Doris Fleeson (New York Daily News), piped: "What with...
SEVEN POOR MEN OF SYDNEY-Christina Stead-Appleton-Century...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
From Havana he was sent to Peking where his hard-riding military experience stood him in good stead, both at polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward...
Further evidence of modernity as an underlying principle of the work is to be found in the removal of the antiquated bottle water-cooler which used to stand in a corner just outside the President's office and in the installation in its stead of one of the latest type electrically refrigerated water-coolers. To quench their thirst now, President Conant and his office force drink city instead of spring water...