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...President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train pulled in. Off hopped a little girl and boy in fur-trimmed blue coats. Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back...
...time: 75,950,000,000 francs. With France and the U. S. continuing their joint dominance of three-fifths of the world's monetary gold, attention riveted upon the strange aquatic behavior of Governor Montagu Collett Norman of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman (with his valet) and the Bank of England's recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded at Southampton the S. S. Bremen bound for New York. Already aboard was Governor George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fresh from a swing around Europe which included conferences...
...been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla (his name for his wife, who always calls him "Tosca"), without his pretty daughters Wanda and Wally, without his pet griffon Picciu, he is alone save for a valet and Friend Max Smith, onetime musical critic of the New York American. Above all things he hates Manhattan's noise. He lives at the Hotel Astor, presumably because of his friend ship for Owner Frederick Muschenheim...
...writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief product was the Valet AutoStrop Razor. For years the relations between AutoStrop and Gillette were as between any two competitors. But last winter, as shavers great and small remember, Gillette prepared to market a new razor & blade. And by a strange coincidence, Probak Corp., an AutoStrop subsidiary, was ready with a blade that fitted...
...passenger list as a basis for their cast, results would have been better. Unfortunately the tremendous and simple design of the accident to the boat has been traced through a set of theatrical stencils, conventionally acted. There are two drunkards, a priest, a novelist, a pair of honeymooners, a valet. None of them are just right. Good shots have been taken of men killed by officers while they struggle to get into the lifeboats, of hysterical women waiting their turn, of the water rising on the floor of the saloon. The rest of it has the unmistakable atmosphere...