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...North America. Generally speaking Brazilians are proud and pleased that their Constitution, "States Rights," Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With our elder brother the United States at war, it is impossible for Brazil to remain neutral...
...President came the strange dilemma of William Adkins, 80-year-old Washingtonian with two sons. The dilemma was that one of the sons, President Jesse Adkins of the Washington Bar Association, had been proposed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which William S. Adkins, the other son, had long been a clerk. The law provides that no relative of a Federal judge shall be employed in that judge's court. Mr. Adkins Sr. asked that his able son should not be made a judge lest the other son lose his clerkship...
Alexander of Macedon ("The Great"), though he died many a century before George Washington, is still held in a mellow, Washingtonian esteem at Samarkand. The natives appear to have forgiven that he sacked and burned their city, remember only how he wrought great glory there, and refer to him affectionately as "Iskander Macedonski...
...Tampa, James Barnes, Walter Hagen, John Farrell, Robert Cruikshank, Edward Loos, Gene Sarazen, Joseph Kirkwocd and many another famed professional golfer competed in the Florida Open Championship. Among them Leo Diegel, Washingtonian and Champion of Canada, drove, chipped, putted. On the first two rounds, his performance was competent: his third round, though not brilliant, brought him within one stroke of the leader- Barnes. The golfers set out on the fourth round, attended by a great gallery which often cheered the. admirable shots of Diegel as those of a player who was making a gallant and unlikely attempt at last-round...
...minutes after the start at Krum Elbow that the Washingtonian boat reached the other end of the three-mile course, two lengths in front of Wisconsin and three and a half lengths ahead of Cornell. At no time during the race was there the slightest doubt but that the crew from Washington would...