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...nature of those measures was last week described to the same Congress by Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, President of the Supreme Economic Council, who boasted that the U. S. S. R. had produced "many more tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns in 1933 than in 1932." Taking his cue from his leader, Comrade Ordzhonikidze cried: "If these swines' noses compel our industry to mobilize to arm our Red troops, I think we will do it with more strength and more successfully than we have ever done anything before...
...faced the same problem that harried the U. S. Comptroller of Currency and all State banking officials night & day throughout the Depression-to close or not to close. His problem was more acute because if he closed one company he would have had, in fairness, to close all. The cue from Washington was clearly not to close, and his experts reminded him that the mortgage companies had ridden out every previous depression on the anchor of the 18-month clause. Close he did not, and final judgment on his wisdom awaits the time when historians finish with the ways...
Charlie Peterson of St. Louis, world champion fancy shot billiard artist, will demonstrate some of his uncanny cue feats before members of the Freshman Class in the Union Billiard room at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One of Peterson's well known tricks consists of hitting the ball with enough English so that it strikes one cushion six times. Peterson is lining up college players for the third annual intercollegiate billiard championship, which gets under way early next month...
...well developed art in burlesque," said the girlesque queen. "And as for vulgarity, I have seen musical comedies on Broadway that are more vulgar than any show I've ever played in." Asked whether she received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes only in a few exceptional...
...scene was Rigoletto's courtyard, just as it was eight years ago at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. The same girl stood in the wings, calmly waiting her cue. But the cue last week, as it did eight years ago, meant more than just running on stage and singing a duet with the hunchbacked jester...