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...Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...
Male Pompadours have become such an issue in Rumania that police could scarcely keep back last week an excited throng which cheered Professor Fortescu as he was brought before the Bucharest High Court...
Next day, confident that he had won the good will of numberless Favored Sons, Governor Vazquez Vela was ready for 5,000 ill-favored men, women & children who hunger-marched into Jalapa crying, "Bread and Shelter!" As the pleading throng approached the Governor's Palace police rushed forth, clubbed them back, jailed 60, drove the rest out of Jalapa...
Higher institutions of learning might probably consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...
...hours last week Washington's fashionable Mayflower Hotel became the political centre of the U. S. Its spacious lobbies were jammed with Senators and Representatives eager for a peep at the next President of the U. S. Up & down its thick-carpeted halls marched a throng of important people ranging from Bernard Mannes Baruch to Rear Admiral Cary Grayson. Through the street crowd of plain citizens Supreme Court Justice Brandeis shouldered his way inside. So did Minnesota's Governor Olson and General William Mitchell, retired Army Air Service critic. In Room No. 776 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was holding...