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...leader who will be Mr. Speaker if the House falls into the hands of his party. Grumbling a little, he climbed over the olive-colored side of an Army ship at Uvalde, Tex. When the white-haired Texan climbed out stiffly at Boiling Field he remarked: "It didn't bother me even if it was the first time I was in one of the dang things. As soon as I got used to the noise it sang me to sleep." Fumbling in his pockets he found that his devout wife had armed him with a Bible text: "The spirit...
President Ruthven soon found himself too busy with the students and professors at Ann Arbor and the legislators at Lansing to bother much with ruffled bird lovers in Manhattan. President Hamlin and Professor Barbour browsed among the charges and ruminated over the names against President Pearson until last week they had tart things to say of the Pearson baiters...
Somebody did not bother to learn just which train was taking Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius back from Rome last week. As the regular Basle-Berlin express passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist...
...Attorney General Mitchell, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde clubbed together to build a camp of their own about a mile below the President's. They were under the impression that all that country was soon to become a national preserve, so they did not bother .themselves much about legal details. As a result they found themselves last week involved in unfavorable publicity when the Madison Timber Corp., owner of the land on which they camp, accused them of being nothing better than squatters...
...Rome does, so does Warsaw. Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski is remarkably like Dictator Benito Mussolini, except that he is lazier, more temperamental. II Duce bothers to be Premier of Italy. Marshal Pilsudski will not bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...