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...amendment to limit Presidential tenure have consumed a goodly amount of time without producing either bills or resolutions acceptable to both Houses. But a sizable proportion of Congressional proceedings and almost half the space in the Record have been allotted to material designed for constituent consumption--eulogies of Luther Burbank, St. Patrick, and William Sibert; condemnation of Reds, the New Deal, and executive extravagance; reading excerpts from local editorials, school girl essays, or telegrams from prominent citizens. These opi, printed in the Record (and no Congressman is ever refused permission to insert anything in the Record) will some day appear...
General George Marshall had stayed on in Honolulu until the last minute, taking it easy, soaking up the sun, reading three or four books a day. The ten-day vacation had done him a world of good. When he stepped out of his big C-54 at Burbank's Lockheed airport he was tanned, rested and jovially noncommittal about...
JOHN C. CARROLL TWA pilot Burbank, Calif...
...equip herself to answer all "reasonable" requests, a serene and amiable young lady named Irene Burbank spent a year investigating New York City. As a result, when she recommends a restaurant she knows its price range, its specialties, and how good the food is. If you want to know about a play, a movie, a hotel, a broadcast, or a historical site, she has undoubtedly been there, too. If she has time, she will even try to answer questions like these that have cropped up lately...
Prepared for almost everything, Miss Burbank dutifully sewed on the button. She wants it known, however, that her powers are not unlimited, that she cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted...