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...dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This is the best sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence so terrifying to the superstitious braves that they quit fighting. When the Virginia knaves have stolen with a legal writ the acres that defied the tomahawk, Boone and his men, Kentuckians now, turn to the trail again, westward into a waiting continent...
...greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley got down to more familiar ground. Boomed he, cocking his head pertly at President Roosevelt: "A half century ago, upon the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University, the institution was honored...
...deed: new wage contracts upping pay 10% effective Aug. 16 and Sept. i were imposed on Italian industry by the Dictator's favorite department of Government, his Ministry of Corporations which adjusts and controls the relations of all Italian employers and employes...
...deed affecting 46,000 firms and the daily lives of 1,300,000 workers was done last week by Benito Mussolini. Shrilled Italian newsorgans: "This is II Duce's method of proving to Italian workers that they would have nothing to gain from Communism and are better off under Fascism...
...young Intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, ingenious Sam Hoare knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special writer for the New York Times, cabled that "a daring airman, whose nationality cannot be disclosed for the present, has flown over the North Sea at a dizzy height. His mission was to use specially sensitized...