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When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff...
...starred as the Deutschland, but almost, was Passenger Thomas C. Smith, special disbursing officer of the U. S. Legation at Copenhagen, whose voyage home was his first vacation in ten years. Uncrossing his fingers when the ship pulled in, Vacationist Smith recalled two other vacations in the last 20 years or so. In 1917 he took a holiday in Petrograd, soon found himself sojourning in the midst of the Russian revolution. To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history...
...snappy articles, the purposeful vacationist concluded that the North was as bad as the South. A dozen southern editors jumped at the chance to cast the stone back. This week, Reporter Ashmore's series begin appearing in papers like the Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham Age-Herald, Charleston News and Courier...
Pure Oil Co.'s president since 1924 has been Henry May Dawes, solemn brother of Charles and Rufus, and its chairman is genial, stout Brother Beman. Least known of the Dawes boys, Beman is a great vacationist in Florida and Canada, leaves active direction of the company to hardworking Brother Henry. At his desk on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Pure Oil building every morning promptly at nine, President Dawes rarely gets away for golf except on weekends. An amateur of Civil War history and photography, he is a great friend of Cartoonist John McCutcheon and Illinois...
...midsummer in any ordinary year the President has said good-by to some six out of the ten members of his Cabinet as they and he part for long, needful vacations. Not until last week, however, did Franklin Roosevelt bid farewell to the first Cabinet vacationist, James Aloysius Farley. The prolonged session of Congress (see p. 10) provided no reason for detaining the Postmaster General. Having ordered the issuance of a purple 3? stamp commemorating the centennial of Michigan's admission to the Union in 1837,* he left on his desk only one important piece of unfinished business...