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While Prime Minister de Valera talked, Prime Minister Lord Craigavon and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain kept mum. The first bigwig Prime Minister Eamon de Valera heard from-two days after making his demands-was President Roosevelt. Mr. John Cudahy, the U. S. Minister to Eire, merely dropped around in Dublin to present an official White House invitation to Prime Minister de Valera to visit the U. S. next spring. Since King George and Queen Elizabeth have not yet made clear whether they will extend their visit to Canada next spring to include the U. S., the White House invitation...
...history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education department spends $200,000 a year, has some 22,000 members enrolled in more than 600 study groups in 58 cities, 25 States, three Canadian provinces. At its anniversary celebration in Washington Irving High School this week will be bigwig speakers, a union chorus of 100 voices, a union orchestra of 90 mandolins. Playing to capacity audiences on its Labor Stage, a theatre near Times Square, is its best-known product, the musical revue Pins and Needles...
...Wells's Outline of History like hotcakes, in cheap, weekly, paper-covered installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between paper covers and sell it by mail order, saving busy students the trouble of going to a bookstand. He spent three years lining up bigwig educators to write the lessons for him. Then he was ready to send out a weekly periodical called The Popular Educator, each issue containing about 30 lessons in as many subjects, at 25? a copy. A subscriber starts with issue No. 1, gets a complete education in 52 issues. Some...
...keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduced...
...peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly bewildered by shouting: "Hello, Hello! Is this A. Hitler? This is A. Pickus of Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A." Last week Mr. Pickus announced he had decided to make...