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...year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next to the land. As umpire aboard his flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...meeting disbanded at 12:35. Off went Professor Moley of the Roosevelt "brain trust" to assemble preliminary data in the State and Treasury Departments for his chief. Secretary Stimson vanished to summon Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, tell him what had happened. On the train taking him South, the President-elect reflected with satisfaction on the Red Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which...
Returning a few minutes later, Mrs. Coolidge went upstairs to summon him for luncheon. In his dressing room she found him lying on the floor on his back in his shirtsleeves. To him Death had come 15 minutes before, swiftly, easily, without pain. For "cause" the official death certificate said: "coronary thrombosis...
Manager S. J. Ballinger of Dunhill's Manhattan store reluctantly nodded to a clerk. The clerk hopped out to the teeming corner of 5th Avenue & 43rd Street to summon the busy traffic officer. The officer set off smartly down West 43rd Street...
When a Hindu bows to applause he puts the palms of his hands together under his nose, bends forward as deeply and reverently as if he were addressing deity. When Hindus want music they summon someone who can play one of India's many kinds of guitar or one of India's many drums. When Hindus want to see their native dances done in the most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with...