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...Last spring Adolph H. Lubin, wrecker, of Springfield, Ill., paid $25,000 for wrecking privileges at Chicago's Century of Progress, went to work on the Hall of Science. Last week, as steel girders of the Travel and Transport Building crashed. Wrecker Lubin figured he had salvaged lumber, wallboard, steel, electrical hardware, plumbing, other items, with a total value...
...Book (1920) Edgar Lee Masters temporarily abandoned verse, wrote a series of thesis novels intended to demonstrate the spiritual superiority of the pre-indusrial Midwest over that of the present. His hostile biography of Lincoln gave evidence of his increasing concern with nationalism, since it presented Lincoln as the wrecker rather than the savior of the Union...
...efforts to win a divorce from her geol-Edward Everett Horton and Alice Brady, make the most of these occasions. The climax comes when, through a misunderstanding, Mr. Astaire shows up in Miss Rogers' apartment early in the morning as her co-respondent, shortly followed by a professional home-wrecker, a musical and toothy young Italian. Through the combined efforts of the professional and the amateur and a helpful waiter Miss Rogers finally succeeds in freeing herself from her husband and dancing off to happiness with Mr. Astaire...
...command to his Cabinet ("Tell the boys to be good") had not appeased the catfight that broke out fortnight ago in his "Government of Appeasement" (TIME, July 30). "Liars! Forgers!" hissed ambitious Conservative Minister André Tardieu, charging the Radical Socialists with complicity in the Stavisky Scandal. "Liar! Cabinet-wrecker!" snarled Radical Socialist Minister Edouard Herriot. "Retract! Resign!" howled both...
...their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly becoming the greatest political crime of the 20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched...