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...Only a majority of the House actually impeaches. Ten times in U. S. history has the Senate sat as a court on House impeachments. It removed two district judges and a judge of the defunct Commerce Court, acquitted a President, a Secretary of War, a Supreme Court justice, two district judges...
Christmas Payment. Depositors in Manhattan's defunct Bank of U. S. will receive a 10% payment by Christmas, it was announced last week. This will bring total disbursements to $75,000,000, or 55% of the total deposits. A further payment of at least 15%, is hoped for next spring...
...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
...called "some giblet-like mixture of glands." The A. M. A. further claims that Candidate Brinkley has been arrested for bootlegging, indicted in California for medical malpractice, that the license under which he was permitted to practice first in Arkansas, then in Kansas, was gotten through diplomas from a defunct, unrecognized school and a notorious "mill." But the State Attorney General's office was flooded with letters of protest when Dr. Brinkley's license was revoked in 1930. In 1930 the Federal Radio Com- mission refused to renew his license to operate KFKB on the grounds of "obscenity...
...Last week in Cleveland it was announced that the editors of defunct Parade, local weekly. would begin publishing The Midweek Pictorial Review. Promised for each issue (gratis) was an article by another inactive major politico, Newton Diehl Baker. *The conservative eastern wing of Democracy dreads nothing so much as the possible appointment of William Gibbs McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury. Last week ''positive assurances" emanated from the Roosevelt camp that under no circumstances would Mr. McAdoo be let into a Roosevelt Cabinet. In Washington there was speculation to the effect that John William Davis might be made...