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...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
...late King for his frequent trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped down the Nile to Cairo...
Last month the student body of Marquette University in Milwaukee dispatched to Laon, France a keg of Mississippi River water. In Laon, 300 years ago next June 1, was born Jacques Marquette, famed Jesuit who died at 38 near what is now Ludington, Mich., after evangelizing the Indians and exploring the Mississippi. In Laon, on Marquette's birthday, the Mississippi water will figure in the dedication of a statue of the Jesuit pioneer, cast from coppers given by French school children. In the U. S., President Roosevelt is expected to proclaim June 1 Marquette Day, and in the Senate...
Coach Connibear never did sit in a rowing shell or pull an oar. Instead he set out to learn and teach rowing through contemplation, which he attended to at night while sitting on a nail keg in the boathouse...
Charles "Butch" Burns, of Richmond Hills, L. L. who is one of the strong men of the School of Design and Landscape Architecture and knows it, yesterday decided he could race against a relay team of four friends for two miles and beat them. A keg of beer was the stake...