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Oldsters who first beheld a Ferris wheel and an electric light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight...
...night Timothy, other Herrick cat, also disappeared. Few hours later the anxious family was awakened by a faint, insistent mewing. Mr. Herrick traced the cries to the backyard of his next-door neighbor, Broker John Parkinson Jr. Pushing aside a loose fence paling, he beheld a specially-designed cat trap containing Timothy and the remains of some stale fish...
Presumably Dr. Kiep was under orders from Berlin to keep the new Ambassador from giving an interview, for he chartered a tug, raced down the harbor to beat the newshawks to the Bremen, dashed into the Luther suite, locked the door. When importunate reporters were finally admitted, they beheld Dr. Kiep standing guard over a chunky elderly man whose eyes swept the floor in terrible embarrassment. Ambassador Luther kept saying: "Good morning, gentlemen. I am happy to meet the Press-I am happy...
...superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must throw himself, heart and mind, into the conflict for social justice." Last fortnight and again last week, Father Coughlin's ten million inarticulates suddenly beheld him on the newspapers' front pages, a dramatic figure in two conflicts far from churchly...
...Look at that!" cheerily exclaimed President Roosevelt as he joined the White House birthday party of Granddaughter Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall and beheld her huge six-candled cake. He started the party of youngsters off by helping them pull their colored snappers, adjust their paper caps. C. At a press conference last week President Roosevelt outlined his plans for establishing an "extraordinary budget" to cover emergency expenditures for relief, public works, mortgage refinancing. By this method of bookkeeping which many a critic condemns as concealing the true state of Federal finances, the President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget...