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...door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall for time, State spokesmen falsely reported that the Legislature was willing to let the opened churches stay open. When Governor Alemán cracked out a denial of this, President Cárdenas ordered his Department of the Interior to investigate the entire affair. Upshot seemed to be that although it was still illegal to celebrate Mass in Veracruz, more Masses were being held there than at any time for years...
...only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro) University in Washington, practiced it with his cousin's Washington law firm, Houston & Houston. For the last three years as assistant solicitor of the Interior Department, he has done much work on the problems of the Virgin Islands with their nearly 95% Negro population. Light brown, quiet, studious, witty, an indefatigable worker, he was recommended by Secretary Ickes on merit...
...busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero...
...erected as a WPA project, the statue will cost $35,000, and weigh 65 tons. A new stainless alloy containing 2% white glass will be used for the sheets forming the statue. There will be an interior staircase, an observation platform in the Apostle of Humility's head, and on the too of his head will splash a drinking fountain and bath for the wild birds St. Francis loved...
...that the sun was working up a fine case of sunspot pox. Sunspot activity waxes & wanes in cycles of about eleven years. A new cycle started in 1933, its peak is expected in 1939. Sunspots appear to be the mouths of whirling funnels of gas originating in the solar interior. It has been suggested that the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is the cause of the internal commotion which gives rise to sunspots...