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Hope of a tregua (political truce) for politically torn Argentina died aborning last week. In a huff the Chamber of Deputies cold-shouldered Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's plea of "urgent necessity" and adjourned without approving either a budget or a $110,000,000 loan from the U.S. This left the Government budgetless for its second consecutive year...
...Behind is ... testimony to the power of artillery: hole upon hole, fragment upon fragment, a worn shred torn from the Völkischer Beobachter, the soggy yellow bones of a hand, helmets, old shoes, pieces of steel, an unexploded stick of bombs, unidentifiable fragments...
...wasn't even sure how to get to the darn dormitory. Vag half-ran, half-walked across the Cambridge Common toward the Commander Hotel. He knew that was in the general direction of Radcliffe, but his face was flushed from hurrying and his mind was a wastebasket of torn-off thoughts. He couldn't even remember exactly what she looked like. He had danced with her when he crashed the Freshman get-together; taken her out for a cigarette; walked her home . . . and the conversation had never once sunken to the level of "What courses do you take?" That...
...bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...
...mansion occasionally.....Vichy announced that the $2,000,000 art collection confiscated from fugitive Maurice de Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ....The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold....Sculptor Heinz Warneke's two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington's Social Security Building till popular taste revolted, were sold by the Government for $25. A local auto salesman who bought them figures the stone is worth...