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...Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...
...offered for the moviegoer. Rather mediocre is "Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment. The other type of travelogue is "Wings Over the West...
Shaw admired Morris' daughter from afar until on one occasion he saw her staring at him carefully and quite deliberately make "a gesture of assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence...
...Right press scoffed this week that, of course, he did not commit suicide, and the Royalist Action Française accused the Left of "exploiting a dead body." Numbers were on the side of the Left and of suicide, however, and all over France workers by hundreds, then thousands, turned out to parade with banners such as "GRINGOIRE ASSASSINATED SALENGRO!", "FASCISM HAS KILLED SALENGRO!", "TO JAIL WITH SALENGRO'S SLAYERS...
Into the still unopened Hotel Reforma, soon to be one of Mexico City's swankest, burst swart, baggy-breeched Diego de Rivera at the head of a group of 20 gesticulating young men. Before they could commit much of a nuisance, alarmed neighbors summoned police who questioned Rivera and his loudest companions, found that the group was fortified with not one but five revolvers...