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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Nominee Landon stumped across Michigan with better weather and bigger audiences than he had in chilly Detroit. Here & there small boys booed him. His second day in Michigan ended with bursting bombs, red fire, a cheering crowd of 75,000 welcomers at Grand Rapids. ("Like so many Americans, I have spent a good deal of my life in close contact with Grand Rapids furniture.") There the Nominee spent the night at the home of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Thence he turned homeward across Indiana...
...Still up for consideration at week's end was a bigger problem: should the United Lutheran Church move to merge with other U. S. bodies, notably the American Lutheran Church? That body, which was meeting simultaneously in San Antonio, had postponed action on the matter for two years...
...York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north...
Cinemactress Temple's public, still bigger than that of any adult cinemactress, should be delighted by this pre-Civil War period piece directed by William Seiter...