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...Louisiana banks had been closed by proclamation. Hundreds of distracted visitors found they could not get funds to get home. Distracted thousands, natives and visitors, cursed Huey Long's Governor Allen, who the night before had entrained for the inauguration, who with his expense money in his pocket had dictated the proclamation and left it to be issued after his departure...
...December President Hoover had recommended a major revision of veterans laws to reduce non-military disability allowances. Congress ignored his proposal. The independent offices appropriation bill carried the maximum legal amounts for ex-soldiery. Even before he left the White House President Hoover had explained his pocket veto of that measure: "The appropriation bills passed by the Congress, when taking into account mere postponements to later deficiency bills, show that the total appropriations were approximately $161,000,000 above my recommendations. Of this increase $130,900,000 is in the independent offices bill. I am not signing this bill...
...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...
...held out until 10 p. m. when, no other Senate Dry having gone to his assistance, he suddenly and unexpectedly put his watch back in his pocket, dropped into his chair. Next day the Senate voted 58-to-23 to take up the Repeal resolution. During the two-day debate that followed Senator Sheppard uttered not another word...