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After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...
...Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...
...When I go back to my country," said Oswaldo Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil, last year in Washington, "I shall propose that we erect a statue to Herr Hitler. For it is Hitler who at last succeeded in drawing the attention of the United States to Brazil...
Fifty-six years ago, when Bostonians wished to erect a statue of Silversmith Paul Revere, the prize-winning model was turned in by a 22-year-old, Utah-born student named Cyrus E. Dallin, who beat such experts as Daniel Chester French...
Birthday. John Joseph Pershing, his 80th. After Franklin Roosevelt had presented him the only military award he had not previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast...