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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk, dealing with the proposed National Plan for completing the topographic map of the United States, will include an account of a boat trip through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. The public will be admitted free...
...work camp; recounts that Smokehouse Eddie is vacationing in Pittsburgh; records that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout...
Americans long ago made their choice between Dictatorship and Democracy: "In the U. S. the choice is made—made by reason and instinct. . . . But there is another question. Can tolerably satisfactory relations ever in fact be established between peoples free and peoples in chains? Is not the gulf too wide? . . . Intercommunication across the abyss has become almost impossible." Dictatorship and democracy literally do not speak the same language: "How, specifically, are we to discuss art with people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine...
...existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...
...surprise guest at the party was one of the Interstate Commerce Commission's investigators, H. G. Cunningham, currently helping Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler in collecting pages for the annals of Van Sweringen railroad financing. Like the newshawks, Mr. Cunningham was free to see what was going on in Alleghany Corp. The next day Messrs. Young, Kolbe & Kirby were due in Washington for a session with Senator Wheeler's investigating committee. Said Mr. Young at his party: "We have nothing to hide...