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...Chicago, Irving K. Pond, one-time President of the American Institute of Architects, celebrated his 70th birthday last week with able handsprings and headsprings.* On hearing this news, Chester Lavere, 57, another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there...
...Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency Officers Retirement bill; the Medicinal Liquor bill. (Although the Administration may be embarrassed by the lack of funds in some departments, it can, by shrewd management, make 95% of the year's appropriations run the Government until the 70th Congress meets in December...
...Heard that a Republican caucus had, by acclamation, renominated Nicholas Longworth as Speaker and John Q. Tilson as Floor Leader for the forthcoming 70th Congress...
...been a two-week hubbub into a two-day debate by establishing the precedent of keeping a Senator out while investigating his right to be in. Thus, Senator-designate and Senator-elect Smith found the door of the 69th Senate shut in his face and his pathway to the 70th made more difficult...
...Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent, had expected the veto and cheered it. After three days, the vociferation calmed. Its re-echo will probably not be heard in Washington until the 70th Congress meets in December...