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...ahead of all other business, postponing as long as possible all controversial subjects like Prohibition, Muscle Shoals, Power Commission, Lame Duck Session, Immigration, Farm Problem. Unemployment would be touched on in the Supply bills-extra appropriation to enlarge Federal building of roads, offices, ships, dams, dikes, barracks. But Chairman Bert Snell of the House Rules Committee, one of the Republican Big Three,* was acknowledging the likelihood and trying to soften the impact of Democratic-insurgent opposition when he said last week...
England-Australia. For nearly three years the record of Pilot Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler-15½ days from England to Australia-withstood all assaults. Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London. Apart from the glamour of Kingsford-Smith's mission-going home after his trans-Atlantic flight to marry Mary Powell of Melbourne-the race was full of human interest. Of three others who essayed the route within the month...
...change is seen this year also in the attraction offered Harvard and Dartmouth undergraduates in the orchestras. For the first time a nationally known orchestra will supply part of the music. Continuous music will be played throughout the evening by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Detroit colored orchestra, and Bert Lowe...
...President Hoover. The President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned in crêpe paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President's round face lost its affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington...
...Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head...