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...avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide...
...week, however, U. S. bankers had other things to worry about than the latest blast from the founder of the National Union For Social Justice. Opened each December by Manhattan's ancient Bank of the Manhattan Co., the season for annual bank stockholders' meetings was in full bloom. From hundreds of meetings shareholders learned that deposits were around record highs, that loans were around record lows. The trend of earnings was currently upward, though full year profits were often less than in 1934. Recoveries from assets previously written down or charged off contributed substantially to profits in many...
...daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters in a bathing beauty contest (see cut) elicited this response: "My girls must never be repressed. Their minds must not be filled with other people...
...very close final match, L. D. Bloom of M. I. T. defeated Fitzwilliam Sargent...
...money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...