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...second placers in Schumann and Woodberry of Harvard, Maxam of Dartmouth, and McNabb of Cornell. The relay race will top the program off; and if it were not for the fact that Captain Morse and Johnny White of Harvard are running in other events, it would be possible to chalk a first place in this for the Crimson...
Congress has completed the passage of the Vinson Bill. Chalk up another victory for the Roosevelt cohorts. Having publicly adopted the "policy of the good neighbor" in international relations, and having gone on record against all unnecessary expenditures, the Administration has now used the prestige gained by its accomplishments in the recovery program to force through Congress a Big Navy bill...
...that men were like the rats in Norway which swam to sea and drowned. It is a very interesting, indeed a charming plot. Richard Dix is the virile young humanitarian who hates fighting, but he loves a simple lass who tells him that he is as yellow as yellow chalk. Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer. He disobeys orders so that he may soar up to the sun and then swoop down on the tall of some unsuspecting...
...Chicago last week, says that the teeth were probably used from 1792 until 1798. They were fashioned from ivory and gold by Dr. John Greenwood of New York who had considerable correspondence with the toothless President about them. Dr. Greenwood advised rubbing the ivories with a cedar stick or chalk if they got too dark from port wine. If they got light, he said, soak them in broth, liquor or porter...
...tune is his undoing. When he goes again to buy a funny balloon, the peddler who sells it to him recognizes his whistle, signals a confrère. The confrère bumps into the villain, slaps on his back a chalk M to identify him. The thieves and beggars follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail...