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Eight games behind the Cardinals, the Pirates still have a fighting chance. They have lately won ten games in a row and their crack shortstop, "Arky" (from Arkansas) Vaughan, last week made his 19th homerun and was leading the National League in batting with an average of .400. September's schedule does not favor the Giants, but they will end their season with five games against the tail-end Boston Braves, while the Cubs and Cardinals play each other. Nonetheless, in St. Louis last week, Cardinals' executives announced that they were ready to sell seats for the World...
...late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution to adjourn at midnight. Joyfully, Franklin Roosevelt sat down to do his final duty, dictated...
Since His Majesty's Government were not disposed to crack down alone on the Royal Italian Government, British diplomats in Paris tried to get something out of French Premier Pierre Laval. Silent as an Egyptian mummy, the Premier had his official spokesman declare with fine French feeling: "Our heart is with England, but it is equally with Italy...
...head. Yet Depression has hit Alberta hard. For years its breezy, two-fisted, hospitable citizens have been feeling poorer & poorer. Galavanting to the polls last week, they raised merry Empire hell by turning over their province to a Bible-babbling high-school principal who promises to crack open Alberta's frozen wealth and pay dividend" of every at bona least fide $25. citizen a "monthly dividend" of at least...
...Moines, visiting Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring with their father, Curtis Bean Dall, Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt ("Buzzie") Dall asked their host to help them do a trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...