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Recently, according to Paris-Soir, svelte Cinemactress Riefenstahl attended a reception at the home of Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick. Also present was bitter little Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi and chief propagandist...
...cause a sensation took the new and unpredictable form of a visit to Belleville, Ill. where he addressed the Presbyterian Men's Club. Next day the Belleville Daily Advocate reported that in the course of his speech Pitcher Dean had called the National League's President Ford Frick and its Umpire George Barr "the two biggest crooks in baseball." Last week, when the Cardinals went to New York to play the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pitcher Dean was notified that he had been indefinitely suspended by President Frick, would not be reinstated until he signed a letter of apology, retraction...
...President Frick's purpose in chastising Pitcher Dean was to deflate his ego, he failed sadly. Instead there followed an absurd uproar which filled U. S. sports pages for three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate...
...days of public inspection. Into a vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
...vast maze of loops, twists and double turns were several miles of pipe, through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...