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Last week Senorita Castellanos became an even more piquant and challenging figure. In highest Spanish circles it was rumored that her marriage, although announced for next September, is about to take place secretly in Madrid. That the Dictator-Bridegroom can compel the Spanish press to keep his most obvious secrets was shown, last week, when he suppressed for three days a newspaper at smart San Sebastian which had dared to print a photograph revealing that the calves & ankles of Senorita Mercedes Castellanos are chunky and unslender-as are those of Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan...
...would turn industry upside down. It has now been noted that Hoover has placed no radical plans for the reorganization of industry before Congress; that he is about as resolute and as enthusiastic a defender of the American capitalist scene; and that he aims to coax rather than to compel the business men with whom he deals...
Youthful Germans will learn astronomy from planetaria installed in eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes that take hundreds of centuries. The gyroscopic motion of the earth (26,000 years) will be reduced to four minutes. The earth's swing around the sun (one year) will be crowded into 7.3 seconds or slowed down to seven minutes to make it easier...
...fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom of a cold pack of lies. Against an almost bibulously romantic setting of wharves, iron balustrades, blackamoors and grandes dames, Actress Billie Dove softly, sweetly flutters her little wings...
...against this threat to Kentucky tradition, remained party-faithful to the rest of the Democratic ticket. Before leaving office, Governor Fields did support two Kentucky traditions. In six weeks he pardoned 148 convicts, sitting up long past midnight to dictate his reasons as required by law.* Law does not compel Kentucky's Governor to prove his reasons but last week, Mr. Fields busied himself defending the innocence of convicted-&-pardoned murderers, manslaughterers, robbers forgers, embezzlers, housebreakers, barn burners...