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Work Half-Done. Outstanding upon the 70th Congress's list of good intentions when it met were eight measures, varying from a flood control outlay to radio legislation. Of these eight intentions, four had been debated, three passed by one or other of the houses and five not yet acted upon by either house, up to last week. The half-done work was as follows...
...radio antenna sprouts from one of the squat mud turrets of Ibn Saud's mud-walled Palace, at Riyadh, his Capital. Unfortunately, however, even such modern equipment could not enable the Sultan to know, last week, what the cables of the world press were flashing about his reputed "Holy War." Had he known, Ibn Saud might have smiled in grim derision at the following reports...
...Over the radio the National Broadcasting Company honored Franz Drdla, composer of such lush violin music as Souvenir, Serenade, Vision, Madrigal. Drdla is 60 now, eking out a meager living in Vienna by making tenpenny tunes...
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist McPherson for $1,000,000. Last week, Mrs. Kimball's lawyer announced that the suit had been settled out of court. What the terms of settlement might have been, he refused to say; his client, however, was "perfectly satisfied...
...lists this week in the field where Morgan, Hill, and Harriman have fought their battles; Michael J. Meehan, financial genius, emerged, a trifle dishevelled, but richer by several millions. All this is very pleasant and bewildering for him, but there is a little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit...