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...President with the gains he had been told he was making (see col. 3) that he decided to hold his campaign fire until October. He would then make at least two speeches in the Midwest, possibly in Minnesota and at his native West Branch, Iowa, in the farm strike area. There might also be speeches in Chicago and New York. ¶Thirty years ago young Raymond Robins was prospecting for gold in Alaska when he had a vision of a gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making his fortune in gold...
Contented subjects of His Serene Highness Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, beamed last week at news that he had purchased for $1,000,000 a private estate in Austria approximately half the size of Liechtenstein (area...
There are earnest, unkempt minor officials in Russia who can find a solution for anything. Russia's harvested area is 25% less than in 1931 according to figures of Aug. 1. Russian meat is so scarce that U. S. experts have been called in. A long and hungry winter grows nearer. In the face of this Soviet officials have discovered that the rabbit, one of the mainstays of the French bourgeois cuisine, is sadly neglected in Russia. Only 1,500,000 domestic rabbits exist in the Soviet Union. Last week rabbit propaganda was put in motion. A rabbit breeding...
...plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown up. It is dominant and self-sufficient in a vast area, 555 miles from Salt Lake City...
...encounter with the B. E. F. for which the War Department had long been preparing.* In their wake came five small tanks, a fleet of trucks. Bayonets glittered in the sun, equipment clanked over the pavement as the force marched slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Reaching the "affected area" (4:45 p. m.) troopers rode straight into the hooting, booing ranks of the B. E. F. Veterans scrambled out of the way of swinging sabres, trampling hoofs. Steel-helmeted infantrymen with drawn revolvers advanced 20 abreast. Behind them came others with rifles lowered, bayonets prodding...