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...amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery's union with an admiral's daughter, he is called upon to scrub decks, have both eyes blacked by a bosun's mate, wear a borrowed tailcoat which gets wet. He maintains, in spite of these handicaps, an air of stubborn frivolousness. When his girl refuses to speak to him he makes his disappointment hilarious in one line by saying...
...approached the steamer," he continued, "I signalled the order to surrender, but their captain was stubborn.. When we were near enough the man at the top of our mast called out to clear the gun, and we had to fire. The stovepipe went flying through the air, and the captain of the steamer thought it was an aerial torpedo, so he immediately surrendered. When we took possession of the boat we found that its cargo was chiefly wines and Champagne...
...chief interest-the oil of independent producers as distinguished from the oil imported by the big refining companies. He battled for a $1-per-bbl. tariff and lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose family controls Gulf Refining Co., which in turn, according to Senator Thomas, fears tariffs, embargoes...
...member of the faculty, have proven their opposition and have mentioned many possible substitutions. It is practically certain that all the protest purely against the chapel will avail nothing. The time for destructive criticism is at an end. Too much of it invariable tends to make the opposite side stubborn. When some agreement is reached on a memorial that would be fitting and useful a still stronger case for chapel opposition can be made. It is hoped that the administration, in view of the protest made and the suggestions offered, will reconsider its stop to proceed with the chapel this...
...less than ten days of the present Congress remained, the President might have killed the bill simply by doing nothing about it. Fearful that the President would take advantage of this constitutional technicality to kill the measure without giving Congress another chance to vote on it, Michigan's stubborn Senator Couzens announced that he would filibuster against all important legislation until President Hoover acted. This would force the President to convene the next Congress on March 4 in order to get money to carry on the Government. The Couzens tactics brought the Senate almost to a standstill. Alarmed, Senator...