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...Alaska: 1) Harold Le Clair Ickes & Bride accepted carved totem pole pins from Indian schoolchildren at Ketchikan; 2) Senator Reynolds of North Carolina slew a 3,000-lb. bull walrus which, wounded, charged his hunting party's boats off Wainwright...
...Paraffin tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...
Plenty of people like Senator Byrd. House Minority Leader Snell and a whole slew of ladies from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who descended on Washington last week are convinced that any further so-called pump-priming will be money down the drain. But that Government spending from 1933 helped bring the U. S. at least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal...
Best estimates are that the Japanese executed 20,000 at Nanking, slew 114,000 Chinese soldiers in the Shanghai-Nanking phase of the war, lost 11,200 Japanese in this phase...
...first Greek copy ever found of the Apollo Lykeos; the bronze shield of Brasidas, captured at the Battle of Pylos in 425 B.C.; and a statue base bearing the epigram of Simonides, familiar to many a schoolboy: A marvelous great light shone for the Athenians when Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus...