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...there. To Roy Robertson's picketers went the police order: "Keep out of the plaza, stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson...
...battle to frame legislation to curb speculation on Federal Reserve credit. The first draft of his bill sent bankers flocking to Washington to condemn it as deflationary. The second draft drew sharp criticism from the Federal Reserve Board itself. Senator Glass charged that there was a bankers' conspiracy afoot to kill his bill. The third draft which went favorably to the Senate floor last week constituted a series of changes and compromises to make the measure generally acceptable to the financial fraternity...
...anyone who scans newspapers from dozens of colleges all over the country, it is apparent at once that there is a universal movement afoot to effect a new form of student government which will not only care for the social needs of students but scholastic and welfare problems as well. The development of large student bodies with multiplied problems has rendered governments by a handful of aggressive campus politicians obsolete...
Riding through the snows near Fort Tejon in the Tehachapi Range, about 65 mi. northwest of Los Angeles one day last week, an Indian cowhand espied against the white wall of a canyon a black smudge. Hundreds of searchers afoot, scores of planes had been hunting for nearly a week for that black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific...
...observed that the Depression prayer had merely been authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general use. Of the fact that Dean William Foxley Norris had an nounced that the prayer would not be used in Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop took no notice. He had bigger things afoot than praying for his country's pocketbook. The biggest thing that Dr. Lang has been working on is a cause of much concern to his great brother-in-God, Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop and the Pope have never met, doubtless never will; but if they should, they might...