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Before the House of Representatives the bill duly came, was passed in toto, by 106-to-43.* Cock-a-hoop with success, "The Savior" strutted about Havana declaring: "We have a two-thirds majority. We can pass the bill over the President's veto...
...still more cock-a-hoop when a petition to impeach the President was signed by 118 Congressmen and 75,000 peasants surged into Havana, cheering Batista wildly, jeering the President and warming up toward Revolution...
Homestake's boom began mildly in 1927, when better grades of ore were unearthed and gold recovery per ton started to rise sharply. A ton of the ore was worth $4.50 in 1929, $7 in 1932, $9 in 1933. When the price of gold jumped through the Roosevelt hoop, emerging at $35 an ounce, returns per ton rose further, and now average nearly $14. Homestake's per share earnings went up from $2.23 in 1926 to $9.94 in 1932, $19.94 in 1933, $28.29 in 1934. Last year they jumped again to $32.43 per share. Dividends have swelled from...
...margin of 11 points. Purdue woke up. Led by Captain Bob Kessler, crack left-handed forward, they snipped off the lead, drew up to one point behind. With 30 seconds to play, Purdue's forward, Jewell Young, had an easy lay-up shot. The ball rimmed the hoop three times, slithered off. A few seconds later, N. Y. U. sank a free...
...Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel presents Shirley Temple in hoop skirts and high-button shoes, pairs her with Tap Dancer Bill Robinson. Still first-rate entertainment are the steps the two per form in a slave cabin, when they wish to distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with...