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Detroit last week was privileged to witness a four-day fiesta which rivaled a Eucharistic Congress in size, a Yale-Harvard boat race in the intensity of its merrymaking. More than 100,000 of the American Legion's 1,046,009 members convened nationally for the 13th time. Across the river in Windsor, Canada, government liquor stores were kept open two hours later than usual in the evening. In Detroit, young women dressed in the manner of cinematic French peasantry served doughnuts in a model French village. Mascot gila monsters, rattlesnakes, burros, skunks were displayed all over town...
Last week Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, far-traveling Director of Prohibition, returned to New York from a four-day inspection trip to Porto Rico. Before he went to a reserve officers' camp for a fortnight's training, Col. Woodcock declared: "Porto Rico is pretty wet; our effort there has been rather weak. But the natives are a temperate lot. Porto Rico is so situated that bootleggers from Santo Domingo and Martinique have little difficulty in smuggling in their wares. In addition there are many small stills in operation. We have only three Federal agents on the island...
Chilean liberals raged ineffectually. Students at the National and Catholic Universities declared a four-day strike, in memory of the "Four Days of Liberty" under Blanquier, locked themselves in the building and hung revolutionary flags from the windows. A crowd of over 2,000 organized a parade and attempted to march to Chile's White House, the Casa Moneda. Kept away by a formidable cordon of police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier...
...instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...
...gentle air of insanity continued last week to pervade reports of the U. S. mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained...