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...definitely decided to reverse this trend in 1935. Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins is demanding that the states assume a larger share of the relief burden. The states, however, will not resume a burden they gave up; they will be asked to assume a much larger burden than they ever bore...
...Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature and with such great traditions can look to the future with confidence. The Queen joins in my prayer that Vic- toria will continue...
...Charles Vance Millar, Toronto attorney, died. He had accumulated a fortune at the bar, at racetracks and in breweries. A bachelor, he bequeathed $500,000 of his estate to the Toronto woman who bore the most children within the ten-year period following his death. Last week in Toronto each of the two leading contenders for the prize money bore a child. Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, gave birth to a girl, her eleventh child since the race began. Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 41, gave birth to a boy, her ninth child in the race...
...Louis Estes, "N. D., D. D. S., D. C., S. P., Ph. D.," a dentist who had turned food-faddist. She ate the raw foods he advised and practiced "brain breathing control." She got well, fell in love with him, accompanied him on food-faddist lecture tours, bore him children here & there, grew rich with...
Minors, for whom Babes in Toyland was presumably intended, are almost sure to like it. A more important recommendation is the strong probability that it will not bore, disgust or irritate their elders...