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...seater Army bombing plane, tearing through space at more than two miles per minute, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald returned last week from his Scottish home at Lossiemouth for the reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...
...Because Easter is the height of the tourist season in Washington, President Hoover last week broke a 30-year custom by throwing open to visitors for 90 minutes each day the rolling parklike South Grounds behind the White House. "Glad to see you here!" he called in welcome to those who flocked past his portico. Despite his bothersome little cold he and Mrs. Hoover attended a sunrise service (it was cold and cloudy) at the amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery, later went to the Friends Meeting House. As usual on Easter Monday eggs were rolled, cracked, squashed and eaten...
...Evening World's. The American got the morning want ads-a juicy chunk of business. Among the others the Times seemed to show the greatest gain, the Herald Tribune, and Daily News ranking next. But the newspapers' excited advertisements in each other's pages, and the Easter trade, made all advertising figures inconclusive...
...Kansas City. He was called to attend the funeral. Now was his chance to overcome the jealousy of his predecessor, to do him a good turn! Revivalist Rider got in his automobile, drove to Pastor Brown's house and marched up to offer him the preaching of the Easter sermon...
Mark was an accurate reporter, testified one Earl Musselman of Philadelphia last week. Earl Musselman's blind eyes were opened just in time to see this year's Easter bonnets. Aged 22, he had been blind since birth. His uncle, a Philadelphia optometrist with whom he lived, believed that the cataracts which caused the trouble might be removed. Dr. George Henry Moore, Philadelphia eye specialist, consented to perform the difficult, delicate operations.* Last week Earl Musselman removed the bandages and, like the Bethsaidan, saw things differently than he had imagined them...