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...playing its tournament sectionally instead of at the Squadron A Armory in Manhattan. Chicago's 124th Field Artillery Armory has better seating facilities than the Manhattan Armory so it was there last week that an Army team of Captain Candler A. ("Wilky") Wilkinson, Captain Chester E. (''Stub") Davis and Major Compton C. ("C-Square") Smith played Winston Guest's Optimists for the Danforth Cup, in the Indoor Open final. The game was delayed until nearly 10:30 p. m. so that an international radio hook-up could let Argentines hear how the ponies they sold...
...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...
Last Sunday evening President Roosevelt sat comfortably down before a microphone in his upstairs study at the White House, ground out a cigaret stub and proceeded to broadcast to the nation a neighborly 15-minute talk on banks & banking. On the morrow the country's sound banks were to start reopening. During the sensational week they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their...
...Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...
...campaigning ended without serious mistakes. The G. O. P. had hoped to tag their opponent as a radical on the strength of his western speeches but so far he had said nothing wild or woolly. Democrats who had tried to dissuade him from swinging around the circle lest he stub his toe last week privately admitted that to date their fears were groundless. Their candidate was "getting away with it in fine style...