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...salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget box before addressing the Speaker and the House...
Next day, just before noon, the precious package was carried downstairs to the large, unlovely office of the Superintendent of Airmail. There, tense and expectant, some 200 airline executives, newshawks and Government officials jammed around a long table. At the head sat baldish Postmaster General Farley slightly ill-at-ease, surrounded by a pack of assistants. Spectators mounted chairs and desks to see and hear better...
While Zepeda lingered in Mexico City, Nicaraguan National Guardsmen prowled about Sandino's back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...pencil was admirably suited. A whole case is filled with these vignettes, where Daumier is seen as the logical heritor of the Romantic illustrators. Exhibited with copies of the "Physiologies" are three pages of proofs submitted to Daumier by the engravers and initiated by him in pencil. These precious fragments have been lent by Mr. Russel Allen, to whose generosity many of the most interesting exhibits are due. The kinship of these wood-engravings to Daumier's better-known lithographs is apparent from the row of prints placed above the case. The magnificent "Rue Transonian" is flanked by the "Souvenir...
...make or break a crew. They have to know how to get the most out of the men. A good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist. He must know when to coast and when to spurt...