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...York Memorial Highway. On the highway at Jamestown, the county seat, stands one modern brick building-the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Not in the Institute last week was its founder, Fentress County's beefy, red-headed first citizen. He sat in gloomy exile at his farm at Pall Mall, six miles away...
Pittsburgh. Aviators passing over Pittsburgh customarily see that No. 1 U. S. steel city through a grey pall of smoke. Last week for the first time the Smoky City stood out sharp & clear. The fires of its great mills and factories were banked...
Chicago and gangsters are connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...swank Guards' Club, along Pall Mall and at every officers' mess in the British Empire, there was but one consuming topic of conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
...tactics will do as much to hurt his course as will the machinations of his enemies. Constant and unremitting statements to the press, day in and day out, begin to pall on any public. His words are being read less and less, his opinions create little excitement as compared to those of last year. In fact Mr. Hoover is slipping from the strong position he has held in Republican ranks throughout the country...