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Died. Lorado Taft, 76, sculptor; of heart disease; in Chicago. He created Washington's Columbus Memorial Fountain, The Fountain of Time on Chicago's Midway for which at his death he was carving a companion Creation. He took up sculpture because he considered it "the one art that cannot be cursed with American 'casualness...
Flake's--the Harvard-Dartmouth gift box contains the finest quality candies at reasonable prices--and a surprise. Who knows? Every student will enjoy their home-cooked food and wonderful fountain service...
...Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice. Next Father Coughlin delivered a "schoolroom lecture" on economics, finance and the iniquity of the Federal Reserve System for creating false money "with a fountain pen and a piece of paper." The Convention's chairman, Cleveland Lawyer Sylvester McMahon, pronounced it "the greatest speech ever delivered on this mundane sphere.'' Following the day, the Union was "democratized" by the unanimous adoption of a constitution providing that its president should be elected in convention...
Just now buttons, shoes, dress goods, fountain pens and other articles of culture on which Russians have had to skimp for 20 years, are momentarily abundant in Moscow, having just arrived from Japan in barter-payment for Russia's share of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes...