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Administration Senators found a face-saver for him. On the objection of Georgia's Senator Russell that he had said "aye" but that his vote had not been heard and counted, the Senate this week voted to correct the "journal," mark the bill as passed by a vote of 33-to-32. But this retroactive rescue was slight consolation for dutiful, downcast Mr. Wallace...
Although denying rumors that he was 72, but admitting that he was over 21, the genial officer was proud to say that he was still young enough to act as a Red Cross Senior life-saver at the Medford lake during the summer...
...which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist, and put Field Marshal Hermann Göring in. Effusiveness of the praise which was given Herr Funk made it look suspiciously as if he was being eased out, and given credit as a face-saver...
...starving, war-torn country. Impressed by the facts presented, Mr. Hoover not only arranged to get hold of the food, but persuaded the Allied powers to relax the blockade still being enforced in the Baltic to allow the food to be shipped in. It was a life-saver for the nation in its struggle against the Reds...
...intuition, last week held: 1) that unless Fair attendance looks up, the amusement area as a whole may lose $5,000,000 before closing; 2) that any profits worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed in the Marine Amphitheatre in the New York State Building, at the gateway to the amusement section and smack across the Fair from the Trylon & Perisphere Theme Centre, the Aquacade and its huge electric sign last week flashed...