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...Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment...
Before the convention was 24 hours old these three had set the side-room bar of the banner-decked Broadway Auditorium buzzing. The bald dome of the President's best Democrat, the old brown derby of his worst Democrat, and the monk-fringed pate of their mutual friend had come together, nodding close in amiable conference. That night in Boss Farley's headquarters at the Hotel Statler Al Smith chewed his cigar from 9 to 1 o'clock while New Deal orders were given. Next day, for the first time in many a month, the three...
...Tsarist Government paid no attention to Michurin. But Lenin encouraged him and the Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...
...named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official militia organ...
...Moscow's famed Hall of Columns under the guidance of walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky turned their attention last week to Russia's children. A 13-year-old girl known as Alia Kanshin marched into the hall at the head of 13 Siberian moppets under a big red banner proclaiming themselves "THE CIRCLE OF THE PUG-NOSED." The Circle had just completed a cooperative book on child life in Siberia. They demanded more and better books for Soviet children, books about "the struggles and sufferings of Young Pioneers living abroad...