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...Voted down, after a three-day fight, the Presidential appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission. (Twice previously it had approved him as an Ambassador, first to Spain, later to Japan? TIME...
...Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...
Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
Toward evening of the third day's fighting, some 30 men sat silently thinking, and when the sun had dropped behind vast Mont Real they had reconsidered and restruck every swing and slash of the three-day battle and each knew why and just where he had lost the prize, but they could do nothing. Nothing except congratulate the winner, a freckled mite of a Scotsman, Macdonald Smith...
...knew that but a three days' supply of bread was actually on hand in London. Though more bread could and would be brought, the knowledge that a three-day leeway was all the city possessed in the event of an embattled siege, hung like a sword over responsible heads in every quarter of the struggle...