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...when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses. The skull? Oh, that's a movable 'prop' which comes in handy for photographers who want to touch up their pictures with a bit of the grisly...
...Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have played Little Eva in a presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, said the whip was merely a stage prop. "What were you trying to do," asked a wry policeman, ''kill Uncle...
...final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
...Prop For Eden. At this point the British Government realized that something must be done to restore the prestige of Anthony Eden and take a little cockiness out of Baron Aloisi. Slow-moving Stanley Baldwin hoisted himself on a lecture platform in Worcester to defend Britain's temporizing on sanctions, and his Foreign Secretary...
Press censorship was clamped down on all references to the scandal. Several footless efforts were made to prop up the sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...