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...Cuba have a total membership of more than 200.000, exert considerable political influence, combine the advantages of a social club with a burial society and provide medical insurance to their members. They offered all their resources to hire the best of lawyers, the best of private detectives to push the investigation...
Last week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic...
...eventual result will be not merely that the secondary school will be raised to a new level, but so diversified and complete a training will be possible in the schools that only those really qualified and deserving will push on to the more expansive atmosphere of college--an unquestioned advantage to the colleges...
...companions. When Rasputin finds out at whose house he has been holding his lecherous revels, he takes Chegodieff downstairs and begins to shoot at him with a revolver. He has just fired the first shot when the poison begins to act. Chegodieff, anxious to hurry matters along, tries to push Rasputin into the fire. When this fails, he wrestles with him, whacks him across the nose with a poker. Rasputin writhes on the floor. Chegodieff then seizes an immense fire iron resembling a crowbar and mashes Rasputin as though he were a potato. He is just congratulating himself on having...
...reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...