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...sooner had President Hoover revived the Senate-stricken Red Cross relief drive by reciting 57 magic names, than the Nation caused the Red Cross fresh embarrassment. "The raising of a further $10,000,000," said the Nation, "will not dispel the uneasy feeling that Red Cross finances need clarification." It was recalled that last July the Red Cross reported $38,000,000 immediately available for emergency relief work. The Red Cross set aside $5,000,000 of this for Drought relief. Of this it had spent only about $1,000,000 up to last week. "What the country would like...
...part of a larger deal (see below), for $8,216,058. She moved back to Lake Forest to a five-acre estate about two miles east of Mellody Farm, which is being converted into a country club. She prepared to have the record of her husband's insolvency stricken off the county books, crying: "I guess this shows that Mr. Armour was justified! . . . And those bankers who called my stock a liability! Well, I can laugh now at them...
...tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
Toward Emptiness. Many physicists are talking today about an expanding universe. The "red shift" observed in starlight has been interpreted by some to demonstrate that the stars of the universe are rushing away from each other like a panic-stricken crowd (TIME, Oct. 6, Jan. 5). Last week Dr. Albert Einstein told newsgatherers in Pasadena that he was anxious to talk to Mt. Wilson astronomers about their observations of the red shift. At the same time in Cleveland, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Astronomical Observatory, reported some data about the expanding universe which he expects to repeat later...
...Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department...