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Back to Mrs. Hahn came favorable reports. Her experts, unlike Sir Joseph's, were relying on history, measurements, concrete evidence, rather than esthetic considerations. They were rumored to have discovered telltale thumbprints.* In Kansas City, art dealer J. Conrad Hug twice mortgaged his home to obtain funds for the defeat of Sir Joseph...
President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...
...theorical envelope of the earth's atmosphere, estimated to be 350 miles out. That it exists is the best current explanation for radio static, fading and silent pockets. Radio waves spray out from sending stations. Supposedly some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others reach the sets tardily by reflection from the Heaviside Layer. Probably the sprayed waves, going by the two paths, interfere with each other. One idea is that the Layer lies close to earth at the two Poles. The Byrd Antarctic expedition took along a Westinghouse ossilograph to find...
...Pugsley established four scholarships for the study of international law at Harvard two of which are held this year by Walter Hug and Stephen Czaho. These scholarships, like those just given, are open only to foreign students. This fall Mr. Pugsley notified Dean Pound that the yearly award on these four scholarships was to be increased to $300 a year, due to the appreciation of the investments...
...Colombes Stadium, Paris, 55,000 people broke down the gates and ran out on a soccer field to hug and kiss the referee for his fine refereeing of a game between Wales and France. France...