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After two weeks of swapping, cooking, costuming, supping from boxes, and tying knots, Girl Scout delegates will pack up, board busses for Plymouth, Mass., where they will visit Camp Pine Tree as guests of Mrs. James J. Storrow before returning to their respective States and nations...
...note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler...
...week's end when footsore buyers were ready to pack up with their order books suitably filled, the consensus on 1937 autumn styles seemed...
...from the faithful rendering of natural objects or 2) manifests humor or revulsion at such Nazi ideals as War and Womanhood. Since a great deal of the lively German art of the last 20 years comes under one or both categories, big German galleries have found it politic to pack their modern art collections away in cellars out of reach of Nazi bravos. Nevertheless the Nazi Ministry of Education had a wide field for its selection. Professor Adolf Ziegler of the Reich Chamber of Art, a tall young man with wavy blond hair who paints competent nudes, came from Berlin...
Four years later Indians again raided the valley. This time the Black Boys went after the pack trains hotter than ever. Fort Bedford, 30 miles away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal...