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Finland. Not so surprisingly, the most sense-making and least rancorous explanation of the peace came from Finland, that nation that enjoys the Northern world's highest percentage of college graduates and where illiteracy is unknown. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner to his people and the world...
...took the case on up to the Appellate Division. There he got the decision reversed. Thereupon the Board appealed the reversal to the Court of Appeals. And last week, while back pay piled up faster than a check in Mr. Billingsley's club, the highest court in the State cracked down on Mr. Billingsley's hopes. It upheld the original findings. Mr. Billingsley would indeed have to take his men back, cough up. The tot to date...
Fortnight ago the report was given out that Brown's had contracted so much war work that Q. E. was in the way. Since one of the year's two highest apogee tides was coming along, it had been decided to move her "to another port." With no fuss, with only a few score people lining the same Clyde River banks where 1,000,000 had cheered Queen Mary in 1936, Q. E. eased downstream. For an hour she kissed a mudbank at Rashielee Light, where the Mary, too, had grounded. Finally she anchored outside, at Greenock...
Andy Hardy. Four more Hardy pictures were made and Mickey found himself with an income of some $1,000 a week and $10,000 bonus per picture. In rapid succession he acquired a list of good things that would stagger the imagination of the dreamiest moppet in the highest hayloft on the hottest day. Items: a ranch, a race horse, a twelve-room home, 19 radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific Southwest, a wardrobe like Clark Gable's, two automobiles, a hideaway apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a colored...
Kirkland House, champion of the League, placed two men on the first team; Howle Ezell is one of the forwards, while Don McSweeney fills a guard position. Hal Lubchansky of Dunster, who was the highest league scorer with 122 points, is the other forward, and Jack Stewart and Ace Cordingley of Leverett are center and guard, respectively...