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THE PRESIDENCY: The Kitchen Cabinet

It is now rumored in Washington that when Albert D. Lasker retires from the Chairmanship of the United States Shipping Board, as he plans to do in the next few weeks, he will go into the newspaper business. It is said he will buy up a number of papers and become, in journalistic importance although not in type, another Munsey, Hearst or Scripps. Be that as it may, his departure from the Shipping Board is expected to mark the passing of the leading member of what is more or less openly called the...

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President BARACK OBAMA, at NATO talks involving over 50 world leaders, describing the withdrawal of 130,000 combat troops from Afghanistan, planned for the end of 2014
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