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...uncommunicative about his plans for Congress as about his plans for himself, the President packed up for a three weeks' rest at Hyde Park, longest vacation he has had since his South American trip last year. In Washington the President, wading into the accumulation of last minute legislation, signed the Tax Loophole Bill which the Treasury hopes will plug some $100,000,000 worth of holes in the income tax law, the $87.662.634 Third Deficiency Bill. He also signed Congress' ''promissory note" pledging to make farm legislation the first order of business in the next session...
There was some uncertainty as to whether the Charter Jubilee Art Show which got under way in Chicago last week was the largest such exhibit ever housed in one room, but everyone agreed that it was the longest. It was held on the second-floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...
After celebrating Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Pius XI motored through the gardens of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, then got out of his auto and walked about for several minutes. It was his longest walk this year...
...these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...
...Nathaniel Rubinkam's sloop Rubaiyat: the 30th annual Chicago to Mackinac Island, Mich, yacht race, longest (331 mi.) fresh-water race in the world; for the second year in a row, after weathering a 60 m.p.h. gale which Rubinkam described as worse than anything he had ever experienced on the Atlantic; in elapsed time...