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Your selections provide an interesting cross cut of humanity. For instance, No. 11, March 17, is graced by the stately form of Queen Mary, arrayed in jewels and characteristically erect. The next, No. 12, March 24, displays the crouched figure of Al ("Scarface") Capone. It would be hard to conceive a wider range of the human species...
...vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
Elected. George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) Senator from Pennsylvania; to head a committee of Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc. in its campaign for $5,000,000 to erect a memorial and science museum on the Parkway, Philadelphia...
...Lansing. The power: five kilowatts. The wavelength: 124 metres. Receiving sets were to be supplied all State-police stations, all sheriffs' office's. As a matter of comity Michigan officials had taken their broadcasting plans to Washington, asked the Radio Commission to issue forthwith a permit to erect the station, a license for its operation. The Commission had rejected Michigan's demand, temporized, set a hearing date in May. Chairman Robinson of the Commission politely explained that the U. S. radio law provides no special privileges for State broadcasting, that Michigan's petition would doubtless...
Medium tall, erect, precise, a wearer of hard suits, unfashionable collars and old-fashioned spectacles is Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, 52, who was the original agent (1909) for Ford cars in England...