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...interested were Senators that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace hastened to tell the Press that he would be glad to supply a list of $10,000 AAA payments if Congress asked for it, but that he would hate to divert AAA's clerks from preparing checks to distribute $296,000,000 in benefit payments on 1935 crop contracts to compiling the list called for in the Vandenberg resolution...
...reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor. Darthula's nagging drove her beau from a good pedestrian job to a short-lived "position"; when that sank under him and he turned milkman for lack of something better, she broke the engagement...
...Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such...
...evening, the Glee Club will perform under the Japanese lanterns in front of the Squash Courts, and any humorous talent that may be available will also be recruited to divert the audience. Following this, dancing in the Houses until one o'clock for upperclassmen, their friends, and members of the reuning classes...
...advent of spring were not sufficient in itself to divert attention to light amusements, the University Theatre reveals amazing persistence in presenting double bills of considerable attraction. "Clive of India" is a good film in its spectacular way, though it can hardly be said to be accurate history. The romantic story of the young clerk's rise from a desk to the domination of all India with its untold millions, has been dressed up in splendid clothes and given the proper Kiplingesque tone of magnificent imperialism. For cinematic purposes Miss Loretta Young has been given the vastly expanded role...