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Several more coats of paint have recently been added to Lowell House's blue dome. A few years ago an expedition was sent to Italy to ferret out some kind of color-fast blue pigment for the bell tower; no results were forthcoming, and as a result new coats have had to be added each year. There are twenty in all at present...
...Hernandez Chazaro, candidate for Governor of Veracruz. He had no doubt that his own enemies had done the bombing. Convinced that the "intellectual author" of the deed was onetime Dictator Plutarco Elias Calles, ousted from his country last week (see p. 25), President Lazaro Cardenas ordered an investigation to ferret out the actual perpetrators...
...stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Last week his will revealed that except for small bequests to his mother and two sisters, his entire estate of something over $7,000,000 will go to Northwestern. Bringing the family total...
...sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through...
...rowing. At the Professor's death in 1926 he was the oldest living member of the Undine Barge Club. A hard worker, particularly in his later years, Artist Beale seemed to have a more regular income than his infrequently published drawings would indicate. Only last week did newshawks ferret out where it came from...