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...Some $2,500,000 was spent to check the 539,541 valid registrations (528,005 votes were cast, of which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied...
...about the same as Norway's spring and the hot little Chaco war is very remote and unpopular. The Liberal Party runs the cities and opposes the war; the Genuine Republican Party holds the countrymen of the hot lowlands and wants war to the finish. Genuine Republicans made Invalid Daniel Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last month another presidential election was approaching. President Salamanca, who had already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican...
Start in Life: Invalid. Career: A descendant of Inventor Robert Fulton, he comes from one of New England's oldest and wealthiest families. From fashionable Groton he went to Harvard where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He contracted tuberculosis in his last year (1910), had to be shipped to New Mexico on a stretcher. There he began a study of local archaeology which was to make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly...
...this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep. Her bursting good-health is a bit upsetting when applied to a helpless invalid. Frederick March, as her suitor, Robert Browning, succeeds in winning her hand by is a rather doubtful Browning. But few would expect Mr. March to do well in a part which concerns an intellectual; he is miscast...
...Administrator of Public Works has no Constitutional authority to aid the defendants [i.e. Concordia] in the construction of the project. And if it were intended by Congress to promote that character of construction work under the Industrial Recovery Act, then such purpose impinges upon Constitutional inhibitions and is invalid...