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Situated on the brink of the Pacific ten miles from the Mexican border, San Diego is a bustling city of 150,000 whose chief assets are one of the world's finest harbors, the adjacent rich resort colony of Coronado, the biggest West Coast naval station and Army, Navy and Marine air bases. From Chicago the city's resourceful businessmen borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego...
...being married to a wealthier rival and proceeds to vent his bitterness in witty remarks about the holy ceremony, it is only fitting that a poor shop-girl standing by should save him from the police. Equally natural is it that, after diverting his thoughts from the river's brink in an evening of alcoholic pleasantry, she should marry the fellow to complete his salvation. Like most plots, this one has not all the elements of originality, but in "The Girl from 10th Avenue," Bette Davis and Ian Hunter make it seem both plausible and pleasing...
...Avenue, Naked on Roller Skates) marched to a downtown Manhattan relief agency. At the door the five followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals a day and a cheap room." He waved a grimy...
...still drifting along on the current of routine appropriation bills. Only one little rapid had been negotiated: the rejection of the World Court Protocol. Only one prominent landmark had been passed: the renewal of the RFC for two years. But the session floated in a placid pool on the brink of the legislative cataract into which it will plunge when it starts in earnest on the President's program...
...whole some twelve brokerage houses, biggest of which was Merrill, Lynch & Co. Pierce's network of wires spread fanwise across the country, reaching into Canada. Soon the company was universally recognized as the largest wire house on the New York Stock Exchange. When Germany was on the brink of financial ruin in 1931, brokers chuckled: "Nothing to worry about; E. A. Pierce will take them over." All during Depression the firm gathered brokerage houses into its system, until Wall Street lost track of mergers, found it easier to count active partners of which there were...