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...Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London, after a trip through the Holy Land, he married his secretary, Mrs. Helen McCallum...
...elegance on a bicycle unless you could see Parisiennes cycling in the rue Cambon, avenue Matignon, or among the hordes of cyclists constantly passing in the Place de la Concorde. But Paris women manage to look perfectly wonderful while pedaling, balancing hats at least a foot high and mostly bucket-shaped, with skirts billowing backwards enticingly but not boldly...
...Army Air Forces are using high-octane gasoline in Europe at double the anticipated rate. To keep its combat planes flying at peak efficiency, the Navy has had to shuttle its high-octane gas around like a bucket brigade at a fire...
...Under the Smith-Connally law, which forbids union contributions to final election campaigns, but not to primaries, P.A.C. paid money directly to its favorites' primary campaigns. To date, it has spent $300,000 (mostly for salaries and printing), which it considers a mere drop in the bucket. In its treasury is another $400,000 contributed by powerful C.I.O. unions...
...Sacramento's banks were too low to use Crowe's cross-canyon cable device. So he built the world's tallest headtower (465 ft.), and poured every 16-ton bucket of concrete from cables in a semicircle above...