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...retreat at St. John's Seminary. Philadelphia's austere Denis Cardinal Dougherty, 70, who lately bought a $215,000 house at Overbrook, was traveling quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York, had extraordinary priestly duties to perform. Clothed with vast and holy power, attended in proud dignity by a princely retinue, the Archbishop of New York set forth on an errand imposed upon him last month by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Symbolically dispatched from the Pope's side and armed with all that Pontiff's authority...
Sally believes that the proposed New York World's Fair will be equally as successful as that held in Chicago, and admits that she would like to perform there in a new dance which she is now perfecting. This dance is quite different from anything she has done before, but, she hastened to add, its one similarity lies in its lack of costume...
...Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch than those who could park their cars along the boards at the dozen or so private fields where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface on Long Island. He put up gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes) to seat 3,000, had the biggest...
...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...
...crony of Stalin, Kaganovich has lately been winning his boss around to buying some Russian railway equipment. Meanwhile, however, he had to perform the impossible to keep Stalin's favor, had to load more Russian freight cars than could be loaded-unless. This "unless" was Comrade Kaganovich's inspiration, his stroke of Bolshevik genius. Seeing that freight car loadings could not be increased unless passenger service, already inadequate, was ruthlessly curtailed, the Commissar for Transport has been busy reducing the number of Russian passenger trains, cutting out sleeping cars except those used by foreign tourists, slashing the number...