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...whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock Saturday night was an executive order for minor Government reorganizations which the President estimated would save $25,000,000 per year. The Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization were to be merged. The National Screw Thread Commission was to be abolished. The Shipping Board's functions were to go to the Department of Commerce. By law the President had to submit his plan to Congress, to become effective in 60 days unless vetoed by a two-thirds vote. Blaming the pressure of other public business...
...replaced if they show signs of growing up. There is the World's Largest Marble, seven feet in diameter, in a gleaming house made all of marbles. Forty-seven at a time the Fair's young visitors may operate a complete miniature railroad system. Or they may thread a hedge maze, speed over 15 miniature amusement rides, see plays, marionettes, animal shows, movies in a Junior League-run theatre...
Died. Ernest Hopkinson. 60. vice president of U. S. Rubber Co.. inventor of many a rubber product and processing method; after a six-month illness: in Manhattan. Increasingly popular with textile manufacturers is his latest invention. Lastex, thread with a rubber core which makes cloth that stretches two ways...
...have been the germ of a potent picture but if so it was sterilized by second-rate dialog and second-hand situations. What is left are a few authentic and interesting episodes-like the contest in wagon-loading by Hoffman's drivers-strung together on the thin thread of a skillful performance by Hersholt...
...title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke one of his teeth half in two, left another hanging by a thread...