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Storm over the Andes (Universal) tells an improbable story about an implausible group of wildcat aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition...
...hand to help along the cause of church peace & unity were such irenic Southern Bishops as John Monroe Moore of Dallas, William Newman Ainsworth of Macon, Arthur James Moore of San Francisco, Paul Bentley Kern of Greensboro, such irenic Northern Bishops as Frederick DeLand Leete of Omaha and Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington...
Since Jan. 3 the U. S. Senate has got along with 95 members and West Virginia with only one Senator. Neither Senate nor State seemed to suffer appreciably under this arrangement. Nevertheless when Rush Drew Holt celebrated his 30th birthday last week, the Senate spent two full days arguing over whether he was constitutionally entitled to the Senate seat to which West Virginia elected him last autumn...
...years. . . .), Senators enlarged for hours on their meaning. Did that mean that a Senator must be 30 when he was elected? Or when his term normally began? Or when he claimed his seat? Senator Hiram Johnson of California excused his argument against the last contention by turning to the Holt parents in the gallery and declaring: "I take this course solely because I believe it is every man's duty to do the things he thinks he ought...
Equally apologetic was Senator Tom Connally of Texas-one of five Democrats to oppose Holt. Said he: "I get no pleasure in taking the position I am taking. Every impulse of my carnal nature calls for a vote for him. But every impulse of my intellectual nature demands a vote against his seating." Later Mrs. Holt said she could have "wrung Senator Connally's neck" for talking that way. Rush Holt's white suit got all wrinkled during the first day's orations. When he and his family returned next day, he had on his second best...