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...Roosevelt, was still on a machine-shop basis. If there were only some way to put it on a mass-production basis and thereby reduce manufacturing costs so that houses could be turned out at not more than $2,500 each, he was sure that U. S. purchasers would snap up 500,000 to 1,000,000 of them...
...palace dictatorship died last fortnight with King Fuad I (TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents had to be opened...
...lobby the luckless cameraman was identified as Frank Muto of Hearst's International News Photos, who had bought a seat early, kept his camera hidden until the chance came to snap the conductor bowing his goodbye. The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal." But Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto...
Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
...narrow appeal, is one of the smallest Departments in the College. Yet if a man desires to learn German and German Literature and is willing to devote his main energies to study, he will not find the field lacking in worthwhile and enjoyable material. It is not a snap course, however, and takes rather more time than some fields...