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That children would beg on the streets for money to buy tickets; that undesirables would come from neighboring towns; that gaudy signs and lights would offend the eye; that young fry might be demoralized; that, above ail, property values might be hurt-these were the arguments with which, for 15 years, selectmen of the snobbish Boston suburb of Winchester have clowned each & every proposal to allow cinemas to be exhibited in their town...
...United Press. Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness. Said he once: "This is a young man's business. No man over 50 has the right to be the active head of a press association." Last year he began to ail and last week, at the age of 53, he resigned the U. P.'s presidency...
...stories. Today he is more than Commissar of Agriculture, his job in 1929-33. Promotion has carried him to the Soviet agricultural top: Chief of the Agricultural Department of the All-Union Communist Party which is above the State. From this eminence last week Comrade Yakovlev stuffed the third Ail-Union Collective Farm Congress in Moscow...
...last week the Red Army was officially supposed to number only 562,000 troops and the Red defense budget for 1934 was supposed to carry expenditures of 1,665,000,000 rubles ($1,444,000,000). Abruptly and astoundingly Comrade Mikhail Tukachevsky, Vice Commissar for Defense, announced to the Ail-Union Congress that Russia actually spent 5,000,000,000 rubles ($4,348,000,000) last year for defense and has increased her standing Army to 940,000-by far the largest army in the world...
...Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...