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...Passed (205-to-109) a bill authorizing an appropriation of $132,500,000 for emergency highway construction to increase employment; sent it to the Senate. Of the total, $120,000,000 would be lent States to spend in one year, repay in ten. Demo-crats claimed the measure would put a million jobless men to work. Republicans predicted a Presidential veto...
Fortnight ago the War began. Scoutmasters, church workers, civic and social organizations went out on a thousand fronts. Where there were already established block relief plans or other forms of unemployment relief, the Warriors Against Depression lent them their support...
Spiritual Rule. On Lincoln's Birthday first Friday in Lent, U. S. Catholics fasted not, abstained not, but ate what they wished. They may also eat well on Washington's Birthday, for U. S. Ordinaries took advantage of papal permission, good for five years, to dispense U. S. flocks from fast or abstinence on civic holidays...
...banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle...
...divers beasts, bats, and banshees that have lent their engaging presence to recent films, Frankenstein's monster is the most nearly terrifying. More subtle than Mr. Hyde of the staring eyes and grinning teeth, is this monster whom a mad scientist has pieced together out of the parts of corpses. He comes out of the dark a giant, stumbling, inarticulate shape, with square skull, inhuman eyelids, and the filmed eyes of one too long dead. You may see the raised suture at the wrists, where the mismatched hands are grafted to the arms...