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...President Hoover last week held Economy Conference No. 5 at his Rapidan Camp. Thither from Washington flew Secretary of the Navy Adams in an autogyro, piloted by Assistant Secretary Ingalls. For hours he, the President and a school of admirals pored over departmental figures trying to find ways to save a dollar here and there. After the conference it was announced that the Navy would spend $10,000,000 less than its $380,000,000 this year, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 less than its $360,000,000 next year. Economies had been effected by decommissioning older naval...
Last week's story as it was developed through three front-page days was anything but a scandal: it was an idyl. Bride & Groom motored from courtroom to a cottage on the ocean at East Hampton, L. I. Thither, eventually, came troops of newsmen, including many oldtime baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten...
...Legion's next big job, it seemed last week, will be in pacifying French Indo-China. Two thousand of the total Legion personnel of 14,000 have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
...World's death notice for its last edition. An editorial was pulled out and in its place was put Editor Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory," ending with a quotation from Mr. Valiant-For-Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress: "Though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it." On the front page was placed...
...cannot manage itself with normal efficiency. Along comes an irritation which disables one of its parts, say the breast. The body hastily drafts its defense forces. Like Falstaff's paltry men, they are unhealthy, poorly armed. They scurry to the site of the injury, stumble hither and thither, heedless of leadership, out of control - Cancer...