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...methods were disputable and the Chambermen proceeded to dispute them during their four-day session. Hottest topics: Should the New Deal's policies and practices be made permanent and if so in what form...
...Brooklyn, neighbors found Mrs. Delia Tully, 73, keeping solitary vigil beside her four-day dead husband-"just waiting." In Kapuskasing, Ontario, neighbors found the three orphan children of Henry Myllmaa keeping solitary house, their father's corpse in the summer kitchen. Explained the children: "Father's been dead six weeks...
...aide. There was a round of applause. The Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate, raised his hand and began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin his second wrestling bout, this time with the code authorities. But first he introduced President Roosevelt who, before a microphone, delivered a speech designed to crush his critics and rally his followers to a fresh advance under...
Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...
...jinx perversely continued to cling to the coattails of Col. Abraham Lazard ("Abe") Shushan of New Orleans and his airport last week. Week before, during the Mardi Gras weekend, the new $4,000,000 field on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain was to have been dedicated with a four-day air meet. The airport, far superior to any other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named...