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...Year Plan; 3) Grigoriy Sokolnikov, once Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs and onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James; 4) N. I. Muralov, leader of the proletarians who seized Moscow while Lenin & Trotsky were seizing Petrograd in 1917 and for many years Soviet Commandant of the Moscow Garrison. At the unique sort of trial which is Communism's gift to Jurisprudence, every Russian present, as well as the experienced Moscow diplomatic corps and foreign press, knew last week that the charges which Prosecutor Vishinsky was going to make in an hour-long lecture would immediately afterward...
Jack is in the foolhardy garrison that holds it for three days against British artillery fire. Meanwhile, life goes on even more squalidly than usual among the lodgers in the Clitheroe rooming house. When rebellion degenerates into looting of Dublin stores, Fluther (Barry Fitzgerald), the barfly, takes advantage of his opportunity to erase his tab at a pub, fill his pockets with bottles. Bessie Burgess (Eileen Crowe) makes off with a baby carriage, a bird cage and an armful of finery...
...Wild Bill" Hickok (Gary Cooper), famed scout, is detailed by General Custer to go after Yellow Hand (Paul Harvey), a Cheyenne chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail...
...majority, they voted 9 to 6 to give Glenn Frank a "public hearing" before the Legislature meets next month. At week's end Madison was ready to bet that whatever happens at his next hearing, Glenn Frank was doomed. Promptly boosted for the job were Law Dean Garrison and Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...