Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week reporters dawdled in the press box of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies while on the floor the majority bloc of President Cardenas' deputies steamrollered its program ruthlessly forward against the agitated but ineffective shouts of minority delegates. Up for discussion was a minority proposal to grant a 5,000-peso bonus ($1,400) to each & every member of Congress, a proposal which President Cardenas had vetoed week before, despite the fact that Mexican custom sanctions such "tips" to obedient legislators. When the majority deputies sternly resisted this tempting bait, voted it down, hell suddenly broke...
From the doorways and from the galleries gunmen previously stationed there ripped out revolvers, sent a fusillade of shots zinging through the air. Most of the windows were blown out. Seventeen bullets crashed through the press box from which reporters tumbled to safety. When the smoke cleared away Deputy Manuel Martinez Valadez of Jalisco lay dead on the floor. Deputy Luis Mendez, who died next day, and two other deputies were wounded. Fifty shots were fired. It was the third fatal battle in Mexico's Congress since 1924. Deplored Speaker Luis Tavor...
...life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends...
...flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally capable comedienne who had been overlooked for years for the same reasons?he has since made an estimated $10,000,000 for the company which had at first been happy to lend him to its competitors. Finally, thanks more...
Meanwhile throughout the U. S., at the behest of the Committee for Ethiopia which claimed to represent 5,000 ministers, 4,000,000 communicants in a dozen or more faiths, many a Sunday worshipper also prayed for Ethiopia's peace and put money in the collection box for the new Ethiopian Red Cross. Last week the Federal Council of Churches came out officially against an Italo-Ethiopian War, as did a number of bishops and clergy of all sects in a petition signed by the Washington Clergy Committee against War and Political Corruption. In many a Christian heart there...