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...Wareham and Janet Rodney, his fiancee, an absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass at Claudia. Not until her hitherto unmentioned husband arrives upon...
Soon after President Harding was inaugurated, Sinclair was a frequent visitor in Washington, D. C. He knew Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, sportsman-publisher of the Washington Post, and Harry Micajah Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney-General. He cultivated Albert-Bacon Fall, whom he had known only casually as a Senator from New Mexico, but who now, in 1921, was Secretary of the Interior. Sinclair began to be invited to stay at the White House...
Nevertheless, an outstanding episode during the Lindbergh visit occurred when the visitor's swart compatriots made him the bearer of a concurrent resolution of their Legislature, addressed to President Coolidge, asking that Puerto Rico be separated from the U. S., as an independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...
...field district. It had been rumored that there was a corner-in Radio Corporation of America, that desperate shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher Brothers of Detroit owned between them almost all of the 1,155,400 shares of Radio Corporation stock outstanding. Shorts had nevertheless risked selling one third...
...realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence...