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...plan won its first battle when I' received an excellent press, ranging from Dorothy Thompson's eulogy to Walter Winchell's laconic, "Swelli" Lord Lothian, who will soon take over Britain's Washington embassy, favors the plan, and the Roosevelt family has bee bombarded with copies of "Union Now" into line...
Meanwhile a committee of the House, where eight consecutive appropriation bills had been cut symbolically but not substantially below Budget figures, voted to undo all that economy with a farm bill to provide parity payments $244,098,376 above Budget figures. A $400,000,000 log-rolling bee between farm Congressmen and WPAdvocates hove into view. And the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee prepared to add heavily to the Government's overhead, to ask regular pensions of $40 a month for 65-year-old World Warriors-a cost of $31,000,000 a year to start with...
Although Adolf Hitler's German troops scarcely had to fire a gun for the rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four...
...Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes...
...World's Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley...