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Last week Luther C. Steward, national President of the Federation of Federal Employes, announced that at the coming annual convention (beginning Sept. 7 at Faneuil Hall, Boston) he will lay before his fellows a resolution urging Congress to fix $1,500 as the minimum salary for all Federal employees, which would make their salaries almost comparable to those paid by private industries. Said...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
...rowing, the members of Parliament because they were tired of riding in trains to visit their constituents and purposed to drive their own planes in the future, the ladies because they were tired of everything-all wanted to learn to fly. The club began with several baby planes. Its steward was sent scurrying to order more...
Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...
...book will solve the steamer-gift problem of unresourceful people but its intrinsic value recommends it as a tip for the steward. The selections of verse present strongest claim for reprieve. Included is G. K. Chesterton's Wine and Water...