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...Harvard cafeteria near the square recently multiplied its revenues by employing a band to entertain its patrons. For years the Hollywood director has made use of music to spur the actors to greater emotional heights on the principle that music has charms which do more than soothe. It remained for the ever ingenious French nation to apply the principle yet further...
...from the U.S. Treasury, local communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...reached in the crisis of agriculture v. industry. The peasants have refused to sow and sell a surplus of grain above their own needs unless offered manufactured goods in exchange. They have not been offered these goods in sufficient quantities, because not even Dictator Stalin has been able to spur Russian industry to adequate production. Therefore the Soviet State has recently fallen behind in its efforts to buy grain from the peasantry by poods...
Died. John Angus McKay, 63, president and publisher of The Spur and Golf Illustrated; in Manhattan...
...wished to call upon "The Prisoner of the Vatican," and no caller is received who comes directly from official premises of the Italian State, the hypothetical "jailer" of His Holiness. Amir Amanullah, although a Mohammedan, accepted amid pomp from the Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, the "Order of the Golden Spur...