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...which he sponsored in 1923 to make cornhusking an art instead of drudgery. Des Moines is Secretary Wallace's home town. Before becoming a Cabinet official he edited Wallace's Farmer there, Iowans turned out 10,000 strong to hear their native son speak in the Coliseum. He declared that the Government's corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated by the President's new gold policy and by the upping of industrial wages under the NRA. But he conceded that such inflation might be slow. "This is especially...
...Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly...
...Cardinals appear, with the camera most friendly to New York's amiable Hayes. The famed Swiss Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout...
...manages to find them, misses every two or three months. The Codona Brothers* have been holding hands for over 20 years, have been grabbing at each other after Alfredo's triple somersault several times a week since their first public exhibition of the spin in Chicago's Coliseum...