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...Commissioners Smith, Draper and Garsaud promptly dismissed several old employes of the Commission. Two of them were Chief Accountant William V. King and Solicitor Charles A. Russell. Because Messrs. King & Russell had cut quite a large public figure bucking private power companies when haled before the old Commission, this pair had come to be known as enemies of the "power trust" and defenders of the "public interest." Democratic and Insurgent Republican Senators immediately raised a great ruckus, charged that the Power Commission had already sold out to the "power trust," hinted that President Hoover himself was instrumental in these dismissals...
...corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months. The party did not bother to send out patrols. One private shinnied up the pole with a pair of pliers in his teeth, others stretched new wire along the ground. Sergeant Arthur M. Palrang, in the manner of sergeants directing operations, sat on his mule...
...heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...Peasants selling farm-made boots for "the standard price" of $75 per pair in shoe-short Moscow. . . . Twenty-one U. S. engineers & wives in "Austingrad" where foundations 2,000 ft. long are now in for the $20,000,000 Soviet Ford factory...
...table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first U. S. appearance...