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...bright May day warmed up. United Press reported the fainting in pack-jammed London crowds of 7,000 women, quickly resuscitated by mobile Red Cross units. The first of the seven State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...Chamber had differed too much for Harper Sibley's "friendly spirit" to impress the White House. By one swift maneuver President Roosevelt stripped the Chamber of its right to speak for U. S. Business. Before the Chambermen had time to pack their grips, safely seated in the Executive Offices was another body of businessmen, pledging almost unqualified support to the New Deal. That body was the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file...
...intelligent people could be as wise before the fact as after it, few of them would be fooled into war hysteria. Many an intelligent oldster now feels less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe...
...pretty bad way when it has to drop seven sports in order to save $20,000. Saving such an amount of money in such a fashion is utterly ridiculous. If I could not find another way out of a deficit excepting by curtailing the athletic program, I would pack my bags and make way for someone who could...
...City Hall an impressive nuptial altar had been raised to no God or gods but to Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and as holy to China as Lenin is to Russia. Between pack-jammed ranks of 1,200 neck-craning relatives, 57 couples advanced with diffidence, two couples at a time. Mayor Wu, officiating, encouraged each bride and groom to bow thrice to a statue of Dr. Sun, twice to each other and once to Mayor Wu. He then handed to each bridegroom a satisfying certificate done in multi-colored inks and the marriage was complete...