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...cheer Governor Gore's announcement. 3) A suggestion (as coming from President Roosevelt) that the corporations and large landowners might legally be compelled to release a part of their holdings to the farmers for the planting of food crops. This last sensational item of its New Deal threw Puerto Rico into a dither of excitement...
This shot, according to reporters covering the Conference, threw Mr. Churchill badly out of his stride. "He never seemed to recover from this setback and failed to make his expected 'fighting speech...
...bright sunlight of St. Peter's Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that...
...behaving U. S. Delegates. Best tidbit of last week was the Delegates' failure to realize that invitations to dine with the "Fishmongers' Company'' meant a chance to banquet with one of London's richest guilds off sumptuous gold plates. Nearly half the Delegates invited threw away their Fishmongers' invitations, unaware that the banquet was being given by special request of His Majesty's Government. The Press also twitted two breezy Southern Delegates, Texas ice & utilities Tycoon Ralph W. Morrison and Tennessee's Samuel D. McReynolds for ''hardly opening their mouths...
...Jack Torrance of Louisiana State threw a 16-lb. shot 52 ft., 10 in.-two inches farther than the accepted world's record...