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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...positive side Mr. Hoover ordered the U. S. S. Pensacola, potent and up-to-date cruiser of 10,000 tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
...confirmed the contention which Charles Henry Tuttle published last week: "It is recognized that there is no other habit-forming drug more baneful than heroin, and it is apparent that the Federal enactment prohibiting its importation or manufacture in this country has met with little or no success. To date, all known investigations and prosecutions instituted since 1924 established that the sources of supply of heroin are not attributed to its illegal manufacture in our own country, but are traced to the smuggling of the drug from foreign countries...
...novel, Sincerity. It is a serious and over-articulate effort that is made tolerable only by the skill of an excellent cast. Its climax consists in Conrad Nagel's discovery that since his wife did not go through with the divorce she promised for a certain date, he has become a bigamist in marrying his sweetheart, Genevieve Tobin. Best shot-Miss Tobin explaining how she was knocked down by the taxi...
Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...
...mass meeting and dinner that will be held on November in some building on the Michigan campus. It leads off with "Tomale!--Paprika!--Tabasko!--Red Hot--Every One!" Then proceeds with, "What do you mean? I mean the stunts at the Football Stunt Dinner on Tuesday." (The date, November 4, is supplied by a calendar of the month of November with a big circle drawn around the fourth). Immediately below that comes, "Put a ring around that date on your calendar and watch it burn through!" Then follows a list of all the features with the main one reading...