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Senator Underwood is facing a very dubious chance of reëlection next year. Recently, he purchased an estate in Virginia, whither he expects to retire in due time. Some conjectured that he is making a last effort to rally support. Yet Senator Glass of Virginia recently advocated a 20% maximum surtax and ether Democrats, in spite of their last year's opposition to the Mellon plan, seem to be edging towards a compromise with lower surtaxes...
Crawley's luck in the fifth inning was sensational. He entered the game with one out, and Keene on third, whither he had proceeded after walking, on Ellison's two-bagger. Crawley walked Zarakov, loading the bases. Todd was due for a hit, and he lined one of the hardest hit balls of the afternoon straight at Di Giovanni. The diminutive second baseman stopped it with one hand and caught it with the other just before it dropped to the ground, retiring the side by doubling up Zarakov at first...
Signor Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, left Rome secretly. None knew whither nor for what purpose. To make the mystery more profound, Parliament was in session and the presence of the Premier in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies was highly desirable...
...everyone must be, by the extraordinary and romantic history of Lloyd's and by its evolution from an ordinary 17th Century coffee house to a great public and international institution familiar to us all. Cromwell said: 'No one rises so high as he who does not know whither he is going,' and this has held good in our organizations as well...
...Johnson of Newton High School won the thirty-fourth annual Harvard Interscholastic tennis tournament when he defeated Malcolm Hill of Loomis 6-0, 6-3, 6-1, on the Braeburn Country Club courts, whither the tournament had been adjourned when it was found that there was not sufficient time to play off the final round on Jarvis Field on Saturday afternoon...