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...course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...
...Barring periods of illness and my regular holidays, I have gone each day for 27 years to a newspaper office and made a cartoon. On April ist I am leaving the [New York] World-Telegram...
Full worthy of this memorial were the events which the 76th Congress thus celebrated. The ist Congress met on March 4, 1789. Because of the conditions of the roads, and the casualness of Congressmen, a quorum of both Houses could not be mustered until April 6. Their meeting place was Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (pop. 30,000). President-elect George Washington did not arrive until April 23, was inaugurated April 30. Before the inaugural, Vice President John Adams, having a great regard for ceremony but no precedent to go on, was completely flummoxed. Said...
When war was declared, I enlisted, served with the ist Battalion Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch) till April 1919, [was] decorated with corporal's stripes and three medals. . . . Of the two years and a half which intervened before I emigrated to America I spent two years working and the half-year seeking work...
...English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the 14th than of the ist Century, that great artists never wanted to be copyists of nature, but were imaginative and expressive, that...