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...Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until it does rain." It did, after four innings, with the score 0-0. Well spattered before he was covered by an umbrella, the disappointed President was conducted...
Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church...
...terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport, he startled all Britain by distributing prizes at a sporting meet without a hat, in sandals and wearing an open-necked tennis blouse...
Have you now in your possession a borrowed book or umbrella you are ashamed to return...
...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...