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...again in 1929, at the closings of the 69th and 70th Congresses, it was Senator Reed who filibustered-against campaign investigations, against postponement of National Origins...
...farm in Medfield, Mass., there lives a shy recluse, so distinguished in the field of music that three major orchestras arranged programs to celebrate his 70th birthday. He is Composer Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, an Alsatian who came to the U. S. at 20, played the violin in Manhattan for a year under Theodore Thomas, then joined the Boston Symphony where for 18 years he shared the first violin desk with famed Franz Kneisel...
...traffic, has caused intelligent dogs to prefer the inner side of the walk. The walls of apartment houses are uninviting, it is true, but life is sweeter than freedom. Yet last week came news that not even apartment house walls are safe, that a dog's life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders. Evidently some of this powder has contained arsenic. Several dogs have...
...Below 70th Street, where promenade Mrs. Rupert Hughes's Jinka (Pekinese), John Held Jr.'s Madame (dachshund), Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's Tobie of Meridale (Pekinese), and their friends, anxiety reigned last week. Above 70th, where Mrs. August Belmont's Lillium von der Til Til (German Police) is but one aristocrat among many, reigned positive consternation. Small comfort, indeed little short of insult, was it for the authorities to assert that no properly muzzled dog need fear for its life...
General John Joseph Pershing gave an interview to newshawks on his 70th birthday (Sept. 13). Excerpt: ". . . Nothing gives me more happiness than that I have never been drawn into political life. I have watched what happens to holders of high political office. I have seen their every word distorted and twisted to find some hidden meaning. I have seen their political supporters picture them as prodigies of wisdom and statesmanship while their opponents at the same time set them out as stupid scoundrels. And I have known them, and known that they were neither the one nor the other, just...