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More than 200 bills started their way toward the purgatory of committees and the hell of oblivion in the House last week. Well did its 432 members know that all the session's important legislation would originate not in Congress but at the White House, whence would come, week by week, the order of business. Nevertheless, tradition dictated a simulacrum of consequential activity...
...Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck, leg, arm, in a bed in a furniture store into which he had broken. "I don't think I can live," moaned the Tri-State Terror. "I'm shot to hell. They hit me five times. I counted them as they...
Back we go to the good old days of the world war to discover that one man believed that war was hell and that men were like the rats in Norway which swam to sea and drowned. It is a very interesting, indeed a charming plot. Richard Dix is the virile young humanitarian who hates fighting, but he loves a simple lass who tells him that he is as yellow as yellow chalk. Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer...
...stock was not delivered to them until after the crash and then with the stipulation that it must not be sold. After they refused to buy more Insull stock, she said last week, both she and her husband were banned from the opera company and "life was made a Hell for us." And many another old Chicago star last week chimed a similar story. ¶ After an investigation of the receiver ship of Insull Utility Investments, Inc. (since lapsed into bankruptcy), Federal Judge Evan Alfred Evans of Chicago last week ruled that Calvin Fentress had been appointed receiver by collusion...
...Manhattan 600 needy women & children attended a party to celebrate the second anniversary of a free food station maintained in an old church in Hell's Kitchen by Marjorie Post Hutton, wife of wealthy Edward F. Hutton (General Foods). More than 250.000 meals have been given away as a result of Hutton largesse. After dinner her guests dubbed Mrs. Hutton "Lady of the Home," and the children sang: East side, west side, All around the town! Children are made happy, Mothers smile instead of frown; Thank you, Mrs. Hutton - Other kind friends too, May all the joys you bring...