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Preoccupation with war, and "doing something about it," has given rise to pressure groups whose target is the White House. Dorothy Thompson heads one of these...
Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...
...Congressional critics of WPA needed a shining target to shoot at in the coming session, Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard...
Fifty years ago, before cockfights became the target for reformers, New Or-leans-and its interstate mains in the old Spanish pit-was the mecca for cocking fans. Today the No. 1 event is the $8,000, four-day Orlando Tournament, held the last week in January. The tournament is open to any reputable cocker who thinks his batch of birds are worth risking the $500 entrance fee. Only 16 entries are accepted, however, the 16 owners each entering 15 cocks-one for each of the 15 regulation weight divisions ranging, in two-ounce jumps, from...
...reprimanded before his mates for sleeping in class, he elected to fight School-teacher Donald Mitchell, older but not larger than himself, was thrown out of the schoolhouse. Home he went, not to mother but to get one of mother's guns. Armed with a .22 calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later at his home by the sheriff, surrendered his gun, which...