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...escape being "lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order, viz.: the Navy's aircraft shall not fly over the duck-shooting sectors of Barnegat during the duck-shooting season. To do so scares the ducks, which...
...entertaining in his behalf? Did he smile, recalling that he had released his followers from political loyalty, if not from personal affection? Delegate Harriman speculated. In a dining-room high above Times Square, Manhattan, another friend lunched privately and importantly with his fellow princes of the press. Diminutive Louis Wiley, presiding over the business destinies of his paper, would see that the gowns, the epigrams of Delegate Harriman were not denied the readers of the Democratic, politically powerful New York Times...
...School where there was little opportunity for social life. Due to the fact that the student body was very small in numbers, this work was directed mainly among the new men. With this in mind, the committee, made up of the secretary, with William Malerick, G. Earl Thompson, William Wiley, and David Weisberger, looked after the new men and saw that they became acquainted with each other, and the other students in the school. The question of monthly "get-togethers" was discussed but considered to be inadvisable because of the small student body...
...Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into the most sumptuous suite on the Texas at Brooklyn Navy Yard, they inferred the improvement was in honor of the President. But a deck officer said: "Not at all! We're putting those...
...when statements by the State Department were made public by the Appropriations Committee of the House. The State Department had agitated to have its allowance for newspaper subscriptions raised from $700 per annum to $1,200. Particularly did che bosoms of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley swell, because, concerning their newspaper, to which they have tried so hard to give unique completeness, the State Department said: "The paper most in demand is the New York Times, which has the largest amount of foreign news. The New York Times is now going to about nine officers...