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...wrong twice. Mme Bradna told me at a cocktail party recently that she and her husband had a trained dog act. Had Olympe been born of a bareback rider immediately after a performance, it would have been picturesque indeed! Secondly, the theatre is the well-known Olympia...
...called costly failures was an effort to settle 200 U. S. farmers in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, where many of those settlers, still remaining after two years of tribulation, are spending this summer trying to raise a crop of winter wheat because the Government supplied them with the wrong seed. In June 1936, R. A. had a 19,700 payroll. Last July, it had been cut almost in half. When R. A. officially died last week, its major functions were transferred to a new agency called Farm Security Administration, whose main job will be finishing R. A. projects already...
...Senator Schwellenbach-whose objection to the manner of the bill's passage was applauded by most of his confreres-had predicted, he found nothing wrong with the bill itself. Next day it passed without objection. The incident nonetheless remained noteworthy. It was the only serious interruption in a week which Congress spent in going over formidable legislative jumps with almost alarming ease. Major bills which were finally enacted...
...Union heard about this it began to call proudly for a new gallery to house the "$15,000,000" Crocker collection. Director Pratt rated his findings more modestly but his curiosity mounted from week to week. He decided that the old Crocker catalog was not only inadequate but frequently wrong, wrote and printed a new one. Last week Mr. Pratt hung up for Sacramento art lovers his first batch of newly discovered or identified pictures, declaring it "one of the most important art events of the West...
...primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong...