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...keep a vampire in his grave is to bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...
...Carolina" is the story of Will Connelly, scion of a decaying Southern family who strays from the old manse occasionally for an interlude with the daughter of a somewhat socially backward neighbor. Janet, for it is she, displays a combination of charming romanticism and business acumen common to the movies but strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success...
...line which will make the 1934 total more than half again as big as that of 1933. This is the 38-mi. Dotsero Cutoff, now 85% completed. Built largely with RFC funds, it will run from Dotsero, Col. on the Denver & Rio Grande Western to Orestod (Dotsero backward) on the Denver & Salt Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff will finally put to more than nominal use the famed Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver. Commonly known as "Moffat's Folly" or "The Gateway to Nowhere," this tunnel was the life-long dream of the late David Halliday Moffat, oldtime Denver banker...
...gone to Washington ten months ago to do business before Government departments, had not yet been admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Said he last week: "When I go into a department, I always tell them to settle the matter on its merits and to bend over backward in view of my being secretary of the national committee. And they do lean over backward...
...Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, did not hesitate to say that the "reforms of the New Deal were here to stay," that "civilization could not go backward," and that a large number of his more important legislative measures must be permanent. By a majority of 5-4 the Supreme Court has approved a single feature of the great canon of emergency legislation; the personnel record of the court, the general surprise at Chief Justice Hughes' position, indicate that the majority hinges upon him. The minority opinion of Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, and van Devanter might have been written...