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...morning to find that his political activities are the subject of an unfriendly investigation. He dedicates a bridge from a microphone in his bedroom, starts for a city board meeting, ends up backstage at a musical show where he demonstrates a dance routine to a chorus girl named Doree Dawn (Evalyn Knapp). Presently occurs the party at which the chorus girl squabbles with a young admirer, endears herself to Mayor Kingston by comforting him when news about the investigation makes him morose. Unlike Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who last week did not interest himself in Mayor Walker's domestic...
...throatily sobbing: "Smith's shot himself!" They rushed him to a hospital. While he was on the operating table, his wife was given a spare room. Nurses later reported that they found Mrs. Reynolds and Walker tussling drunkenly on the floor, heard her say she was pregnant. At dawn Smith Reynolds was dead...
...were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow on the Eastern sky from his White House window. At dawn the place was a charred & blackened ruin. The B. E. F. was gone. Not a shot had been fired by the victorious Army...
...polar dawn comes in March, sunset in September, noon in June. Last week it was mid-afternoon in the Arctic as all over the world meteorologists, astronomers and geophysicists traveled to work for the Second International Polar Year. Their most exciting assignment was to watch for the effects of the Sun's eclipse on Aug. 31. Then will follow a dull, methodical twelve months of measurements, computations and recordings...
...Barney & Lover. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury of ten men & two women in Old Bailey appeared Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, accused of murdering her lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean...