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...vigorous police drive against parking automobiles all night on Cambridge streets has been instituted this fall by Captain Joseph J. Donahue of the Cambridge police. "I'll clean the streets if I have to tow the cars away," stated the Captain, and then produced evidence that such had already been done...
...wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust barriers...
...unanimous decree. To placate everybody, they promised to turn over the government to "the Constituent Assembly, which is to be called.'' But Commissioner Grau San Martin (pronounced "Grou Sahn Marteen") explained quietly that, before an election could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo roared to the crowd, "For the first time in history the Cuban people will rule their own destinies...
...issue thus drawn between President Roosevelt and Mr. Ford seemed to involve much more than just the automobile industry's code. It was the first clean-cut major encounter between the new "robust collectivism" and a prime exponent of the old "rugged individualism." Mr. Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code...
Founder and editor of Family Circle is small, spry, Georgia-born Harry Evans, onetime managing editor of Life, still its cinema critic. He writes the editorials, the radio column, the cinema reviews for Family Circle, prides himself on keeping his gossip clean. Editor Evans' chain-store clients are so convinced that Family Circle attracts customers that they pay the production and delivery costs (it is printed in Manhattan...