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...original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters, have furnished two dinosaurs, a brontosaurus, a shovel-jawed elephant, a sabre-toothed tiger, a wooly rhinoceros and prehistoric specimens of gorilla, horse, giraffe, giant turtle...
...Harvard section of the Association of Unemployed College Alumni at the national congress in Washington today and tomorrow. Several hundred graduates all unemployed, are expected to attend. A group of jobless Harvard graduates will present the conference's final program to President Roosevelt '04, according to Joseph P. Lash, chairman of the association...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...
...speech that was to last 45 minutes. At times her voice almost died away. Several times the Amazons begged Grandmother to spare herself, but she quelled them with a muttered "Nein! Nein! I will speak on!" It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated...
Sheriff John Stevens, fat and fiftyish, led the petty thieves to the jail courtyard, fastened their hands over their heads to the jail's window bars. They wore their shirts as the lash cracked down across their backs. Sheriff Stevens puffed and panted. One whip was broken, then an other. A blacksnake whip finished the job. The Brothers Wynn, heads bent but not painfully hurt, walked away through a crowd of gaping country folk who had gone to Millersburg to witness Ohio's first public whipping in more than half a century. Questioned as to his legal authority...