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...other members of the cast are uproarious as the Welsh villagers, eager to learn about the miracle. The proof is final when Mrs. Resurrection Jones. who broke up her own funeral by tapping at her con lid, feels the leg and learns to her own disappointment that it's not one of those china things...
...sooner had the House resolved itself into the .committee of the whole to con-sider the Social Security Bill than Speaker Byrns descended from the rostrum and proceeded to read the House a lecture on time-wasting. He warned members that important bills were coming up, that they had no right to "adjourn as we did yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon." With emphatic swings of his arm he declared...
...Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, Skagway became the port of entry for the trek up over White Pass toward sudden wealth. Friends warned Soapy Alaska would be a tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when...
...program which Professor Ballantine will play includes the following selections: "Prelude," "Chorale", and "Fugue," by Franck; "Andante Con Moto from Sonata Opus 57," by Beethoven; "Scherzo from Sonata Opus 5," "Romanze," and "Capriccio Opus 76, No. 8," by Brahms; "3 pieces from Opus 37," by Hindemith; "Prelude in C. Major," by Ballantine; and "Waldesrauschen," by Liszt...
Endeavoring to stand firm, "Uncle Arthur" proposed that the do-nothing Con ference of which he is President be protracted without end. Accepting his prize of $41,595 in the broadest spirit, he concluded: "If we contemplate as our ultimate end a League controlling the world's economic life and its armed forces, then we must say frankly that our ultimate ideal is the creation of nothing less than a World Commonwealth...