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WASHINGTON--The Administration tonight appeared to have the whiphand over Congress on whether the embattled wage-hour bill will be enacted. Its sweeping victory in yesterday's Florida primary in which the measure was a clear cut issue, threw an entirely new light on the battle and proponents forecast that recalcitrant, especially in the House, would now flock to the wage-hour standard...
From Hankow headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...
...heckling every Premier. Apparently the Deputies and Senators believed Edouard Daladier when he told them that French institutions were menaced by nationwide strikes as grave as those in Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down strikes which had paralyzed the French metal and aviation industries, vital sinews of defense...
...sister telephoned Mrs. Roosevelt and packed the boys off to New York under the watchful eye of the Distler chauffeur, James Parker. By the time they had reached Pennsylvania Station, crowds of news photographers were waiting for them. So was the Roosevelt chauffeur, James Kehoe. He rushed up and threw his arms around the boys to shield them from the photographers. Chauffeur Parker, misunderstanding the stranger's purpose, took a swing at Chauffeur Kehoe. While the two guardians traded punches and police leaped into the fray, Dirck Roosevelt became hysterical and Henry Distler fainted...
Buffalo Bill's in 1913. Last one of any kind, the "101," had folded in 1931. Fired by the idea, the two of them decided to do something about it. Last fall Cook left Hornblower & Weeks, McCoy left Ringling Bros. McCoy threw $100,000 of his own money into the venture, acquired 51% of the stock. Cook approached 150 sportsmen and men of substance to buy the remaining 49%, landed...