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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
Next obstacle to the Italians, towering 11,000-ft. Mount Alaji did not fall last week as Marshal Badoglio put every available soldier to working on roads and perfecting his service of supply for a fresh offensive. In Rome numerous Italian Senators heard the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, deliver an address which kept Fascists on pins & needles in their anxiety to hear that the Holy Father had at last come out wholeheartedly for Italy's war. They considered this to have come to pass when Cardinal Pacelli hailed Dictator Mussolini as "not only the Head...
...George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide, was 1,427 ft. wide...
...bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression low of $350 to nearly $500. The industry sold 2,734,000 cu. ft. of granite and marble in 1935. Possibly because things looked so bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors...
...Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America," in the vaults of which future archeologists were to find the history of U. S. civilization, Harvey's reasons for its downfall. When Depression halted work in 1932, Harvey organized the "Liberty Party," received 800 votes for President...