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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unknown to the legislators, many are the reports reaching wis regarding these broadcasts. Interesting, amusing, asinine, informative, outrageous, are some of the comments received on the proceedings, an analysis of which is a clear indictment of time-wasting, petty legislation and those relatively few ignorant, garrulous legislators, wis. impartial, expects the effects of the broadcasts to be felt at the polls, is satisfied a worthy service is being rendered...
...pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...
...smoothness and power which does not characterize the Tech crews now working out in the basin. Unless the technique of the Blue and Grey oarsmen shows a marked and immediate improvement, their chances for victory in the triangular contest will be negligible. The Princeton squad is still an unknown quantity in New England, but it is rumored that the Tiger is turning out a formidable four-mile crew, despite the fact that the longest water course at Princeton extends two miles...
...Mexico's leaders are white men. Calles is the illegitimate son of an unknown and a peasant woman. Ortiz Rubio is reputedly three-quarter Spanish, one-quarter descendant of Michoacan Indian kings. President Rodriguez is a halfbreed, speaks Yaqui fluently. Both Cardenas and Amaro are pure Indian. Observers have long noted the virility of the Mexican Indian blood, the emergence of an Indian dynasty in Mexican politics...
Rarer still but now unknown was a red Masdevallia orchid powdered with gold. Lager once found a single specimen of it growing high in a South American tree. He searched in vain for more nearby, later found some 500 mi. away. He shipped a lot to the coast where they somehow got sidetracked. In a seaport warehouse they lay until they were dead. No one has yet found any more gold-powdered red orchids like that...