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...Debated furiously, filibustered for 28½ hours, refused to apply closure on the Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam bill...
...night last week at 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Hiram Johnson, a weary spectator of the filibuster against her husband's Boulder Dam bill, looked down from the Senate gallery on 29 Senators. Some were sprawled out on the lounges, asleep; Floor Leader Curtis and some others were said to have been rolling dice; other Senators, bleary-eyed, were listening to Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who was talking about a number of things...
...consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
Stroking Steadily. Six thousand spectators strolled down to the shady shores of Lake Carnegie last week at Princeton after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under...
...dam of ridicule and laughter burst. Herr Luther's delighted enemies roared. Soon the Reichstag passed 176* to 146† (with 103 abstentions) a motion introduced by the Democrats censuring Herr Luther personally and incidentally puffing President von Hindenburg...