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...York Central brought in another 20,000, the Chicago & North Western 15,000. Air lines reported waiting lists. Automobiles were spotted from every state of the Union. At 11 o'clock Sunday night a wriggling, milling mob made State Street look like Saturday afternoon. It was Labor Day week-end and Chicago was playing host to its largest out-of-town crowd in history, estimated at 500,000 persons...
...smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes, Del. Stanley H. Johnson, Denver juvenile court judge, with his wife, daughter and two seamen, was rescued from his sinking yacht Dolphin...
...Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise...
...Grace married cool, beautiful Bostonian Gladys Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season he lived alone at the Ritz Hotel, gave big week-end parties without her at Blenheim Castle.* Socialites assume that a second Marlborough divorce is imminent...
...Last week-end Bohemian Grove celebrated its "High Jinks." The 32nd annual play, The Legend of Hani, based on an Indian myth, was written by Playwright Julius Cravens, set to music by Henry Hadley, onetime conductor of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. It relates the efforts of the first man, Hani, after creation of the world by the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, to subdue the other creatures of earth and find Tala, his predestined mate...