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...voted for: Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929), Federal Farm Board (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), War Debt Moratorium (1931), Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), Democratic Tariff Bill (1932), Revenue Bill (1932), paycut for Federal employes...
Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein, greatest of Soviet cinema directors, returned from two years in Hollywood and Mexico last spring, found to his consternation that he could no longer make serious films such as The Armoured Cruiser, Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. Instead, last week Comrade Eisenstein was filming belly laughs...
...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...denied he had any hand in the revolt, expressed grief over the bloodshed. His third son, Prince Juan Carlos, who was reported to have been the royalists' choice for King, was in a Ceylon hospital with malaria he had caught while cruising as a midshipman on the British cruiser Enterprise. From Mexico City Spanish Ambassador Alvarez del Vayo called Minister of Public Works Indalecio Prieto by transatlantic telephone. "Why are you sad?" he asked. "Is the revolution succeeding?" Replied Minister Prieto: "I am sad because this call is costing 15 pesetas a minute. The Republic is stronger than ever...