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...First measure to reach the President's desk from this session of Congress was the liquor tax bill. He signed it with a nourish, was gratified when the Treasury reported that the increased rates had netted the Government $645,000 the first day. ¶From the bale he keeps for just such purposes, the President sent two handkerchiefs, embroidered HAPPY DAYS, to Franklin Delano Gallello and Roosevelt Gallello, New Rochelle, N. Y. twins born on election night...
...Robbery." Appropriate bills were rushed to both Senate and House, and the President promptly issued three executive orders tightening the Government's control over gold and foreign exchange. Speculators hailed the five proposals as inflationary. Stocks soared, wheat jumped 4? a bushel, cotton $2 a bale. But most businessmen, who regard the dollar's stability as more important than its value, heaved a sigh of relief. And their feeling was reflected in a rising market for both Government and corporate bonds. Said the Baltimore Sun: "It is a paradox that a Presidential message which proposes to perpetuate revolutionary...
GENTLEMEN-THE REGIMENT!-Hugh Talbot-Harper ($2.50). Weather-wise scanners of the literary skies say the prevailing winds are swinging into the romantic quarter. Anthony Adverse provided a whole bale of straws. And historical romances are now the order of the day. Though Author Talbot's Gentlemen-The Regiment! contains one or two scenes that certainly would not have amused Her Britannic Majesty, its general tone is dashingly Victorian. In mid-19th Century, when well-bred wives called their husbands "Mr." even in bed, the English county town of Harwick centred proudly in its two famed infantry regiments...
...Chicago to attend the Fair arrived Professional Footballer Cecil ("Red Hot") Burns who had set out on foot from Dallas, Tex. last spring with a bale of cotton on his back (TIME, June 12). Also in Chicago last week arrived Dr. John R. Carter, 52, and his daughters Lois Jean, 13, and Rovena, 9. They had rollerskated from Detroit in seven days, averaging...
...strong west wind made parachute jumpers trying for spot landings in a 100-ft. circle bale out at 1.500 ft. behind the stands. Joe Crane of Roosevelt Field, L. I. and Joe Brown of Cincinnati floated in to tie for first place at 54 in. from the circle...