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Only two or three of the Padre's boys have ever failed him. And the fame of the Gremlin Club has spread throughout Dallas. Last week, the citizens of Dallas launched a campaign to build the Padre a vast "Kid's World Community Center" for industrial education, vocational education, recreation and study. Sheriff Guthrie raided the Dallas slot machines and turned over the money to the Padre. The Center would cost about a million dollars. To Dallas, the Padre and his work were worth every cent...
...greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce the new capacity of ten million tons...
...only one way to fight fascists--and that is by fighting them! Smith may have had only 35 supporters at this meeting, but it would be the height of folly, and danger, to allow Smith to continue speaking in Boston until, aided by the approaching depression, he can build himself a following of 3500 or 35,000. Smith had to be taught that fascists are unwelcome in Boston, and equally important, the people of Boston had to learn that they are not powerless against the brazen emergence of all the gutter -fascists who dared not show their faces during...
Only ten years had passed since the University of Louisville celebrated its first 100 years with three months of banquets and festivities. The university had modestly dated its beginning from 1837, when the citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university in the U.S. Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th...
...sold parcels of the 14,000 beautiful acres (at as high as $50,000 an acre), but has always reserved the right to tell the owners what to do with their land. He excludes Negroes, Asiatics and former "subjects of the Ottoman Empire." Once in, purchasers cannot build a house or fence, cut or plant a tree, keep a cow, pig or chicken, without the Duke's permission...