Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gugsa, traitorous son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, rode in triumph last week into his old capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa...
...attend the meeting on last Thursday are asked to report at the arena at 4 o'clock. For all others, the details are listed in the notice column...
Meantime, last week General Johnson began a series in his United Feature Syndicate newspaper column devoted to telling the President what was wrong with his present Cabinet advisers, suggesting wiser choices. Excerpts...
...relax, the blood pressure will fall. To make such relaxation permanent, surgeons like Dr. Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this, Dr. Adson cuts ribs on both sides of the chest and almost takes the torso apart...
...springs weight, prime factor in riding quality. Unsprung weight in the Cord is about 300 lb. less than it would have been with rear drive. The cumbersome gear lever that protruded from the dash on the old Cords has been replaced with pneumatic shifter controlled from the steering column...