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Firm as a rock upon the Faith's foundations...
...Leeds Trophy race for sportsmen pilots, Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern, whipped his Laird in to win. Of five entrants in the strictly amateur derby for the Lawrence trophy, only C. M. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark. crossed the finish line...
...other big futures market, was the heaviest in two years. Even on the spot exchanges in many towns & cities of the South the cotton boom brought wild trading. Atlanta reported more buying orders handled in the last two weeks than in the previous six months. From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from the humble renter to the big plantation owner...
...working hours Wright had developed steel-&-glass city buildings, windows covering two sides of a corner, houses made as nearly as possible of one material, the cantilever foundation principle (Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, floated on a mud base to rock with earthquakes), and the unit cement block system of construction chiefly used in California. His great reputation is that of a revolutionist, based on his long campaign against traditional architecture and architects. Once considered in Europe the greatest U. S. architect, he was conspicuously omitted last year from the staff of architects for Chicago's Century of Progress...
...oats. At the news of Lee's surrender Tyler was furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard to be his better half, but it was rock-like Uncle Lafe who kept his hand to the plough. And to such good purpose that when Uncle Lafe died Tyler had learnt his lesson. The years of stormy peace quieted into real peace at last: Tyler dropped Minnie, took up with his wife, was glad to be a farmer...