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...Chief Marshal's and 1906 Spread in special tent in the Yard for class only
Next day Alice Roosevelt Longworth, his wife, was summoned by telegraph from Washington. A specialist arrived from Augusta. Five nurses went on duty. The Speaker was put into an oxygen tent. The Press rushed representatives to Aiken as his condition changed from "serious" to "dangerous," from "critical" to "hopeless...
...realized last week that U. S. responsibility in a Nicaraguan disaster is precisely like that of Great Britain in an Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
...Housatonic River to teach his charges what he knows about rowing. The school has grown to have 286 pupils, 20 masters, $1,000,000 in property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete in the college class?against the Harvard 150-pounders, the Yale and Princeton freshmen. In 1927 and 1930 they rowed...
Soon after the turn of the century Dr. Voliva found himself trying to reorganize Zion City, in bad shape following the fall of its founder, John Alexander Dowie. One day he found he had accomplished nothing, had net assets of 87?. He there upon set up a tent, hired a band on credit, held services. Three services brought him $3,500. He then made the proud boast: "The day will come when I will own every foot, every inch, and every pinch of the 6,500-acre site of the City of Zion and then I will float the flag...