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Sleek, porcine, bejeweled and bespatted, "Scarface Al" last week came to grips with the law once more in his amazing extra-legal career. He admitted that he weighed 235 Ib. but protested: "I'll sweat it off this summer." As he entered Chicago's Federal Court, onlookers were surprised at the absence of a bodyguard. -'Much of this talk about my guards is bunk. Most of them are my guests," he said...
...years in the White House have greyed his hair, accentuated the pastiness of his complexion, deepened the lines in his round boyish face, so easy to caricature, so hard to paint. He has worked off 15 Ib. of fat. His health has been uninterruptedly good, thanks to a stern physical routine. Two dozen months of the White House spotlight were enough to generate an embryonic halo about the head of Calvin ("Weaned-on-a-pickle") Coolidge, a previously insignificant politician who had cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover...
...shown in the U. S. before, were not recognized as a breed in England until 1920. They are smart fox-hunting dogs and get their name because they come from the borderland of Scotland and England. They are small, hard-looking terriers, a foot high and weighing about 15 Ib. A West Point cadet who showed three of them had the class to himself. Best was Blacklyne Lady...
Cigarets produced during 1930 reached a new high of 119,624,909,900, an increase of 586,000,000 over 1929. Cigar production dropped 662,000,000 to 5,889,132,400. A decrease of 9,000,000 Ib. brought manufactured tobacco down to 328,765,000 Ib. Snuff produced was slightly less at 40,112,663 Ib...
...course direct to the U. S. had been abandoned for a route via Rio de Janeiro. And Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, former U. S. Navy flyer, had returned from the U. S. to his post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew of 13, with 1,100 Ib. of mail (180,000 letters & cards) and six passengers, among them the Portuguese Admiral Gago Coutinho who in 1922 made the first flight from Europe to South America. In happy contrast to the misfortune-dogged jumps from Switzerland to Lisbon, last week's 715-1111. flight to Las Palmas...