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...journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, addressed 30,000 jubilant Democrats in the Municipal Stadium. His was a dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies on recovery were cited. The G. O. P. assertion that the business collapse was world-wide was derided. Summing up, Nominee...
...Knapp). Presently occurs the party at which the chorus girl squabbles with a young admirer, endears herself to Mayor Kingston by comforting him when news about the investigation makes him morose. Unlike Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who last week did not interest himself in Mayor Walker's domestic behavior (see p. 10), the Governor in this picture shows a vaguely paternal disapproval for Mayor Kingston's extra-marital entanglements. When the Mayor recklessly goes to meet Doree Dawn in an Atlantic City hotel, only the quick action of his manager saves the situation. The manager effects a speedy...
...detectives fail to find the .32 calibre Mauser, until Walker returned hours later from the hospital? What was the meaning of bloody fingerprints on the door jamb, of a bloody towel in the bathroom, of Mrs. Reynolds' slippers and sweater in Walker's room, of their behavior at the hospital...
...party found seven survivors, 18 starved corpses. Lieut. Greely survived to become Major General Greely, builder of telegraph and cable lines, a trustee of the National Geographic Society. The parties of the other nations added to Man's knowledge of weather-forecasting, navigation and Earth's electromagnetic behavior. After adding up the results, the nations scheduled another Polar Year in 50 years...
...Author. A lady as irreproachable in her own behavior as her characters were worldly, Lady Murasaki (Murasaki, no Shikibu) belonged to a junior branch of the Fujiwara family, married a kinsman, joined the court of the Empress Akiko when he died. The Genji Monogatari, in 54 books, was finished in 1004 or a little earlier. Tourists who visit the Lake Biwa Temple of Ishiyama can see what legend calls Lady Murasaki's room and a scrap of the handwriting in which she composed the first Nipponese novel, some 700 years ahead of England's Fielding...