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...decision on AAA, declared in slow, precise words: "The tax, the appropriation of the funds raised, the direction for their disbursement are but part of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end." For nearly two years since the Supreme Court swept away that New Deal mainmast, the Administration's farm policy has been sailing under jury...
...suspense is built with a series of superb effect shots, the We're Here avoids getting cut in half, forces Captain Cushman to veer away. Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails, the backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear. Cut to pieces by the wire cable in which he is fouled below the waist. Manuel screams in Portuguese to Doc, the cook, telling him to have the wreckage cut away so that Harvey...
...bombs from a trimotored monoplane of unknown nationality flying above The High Seas 38 miles off the coast of Spain last week were loosed upon the U. S. destroyer Kane which was flying the Stars & Stripes at her mainmast and had an enormous U. S. flag spread flat on top of her well-deck awning. All six bombs missed their mark. The Kane fired back at the monoplane nine rounds from her anti-aircraft gun. All nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received...
After President Arias of Panama left the Houston at Balboa his Panama's red- white-&-blue flag dropped from the mainmast and up again went President Roosevelt's four-starred ensign. The cheering died down and Sons Franklin Jr. and John were left loitering on the dock at the end of the gangplank. Two women reporters pounced upon them...
...Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft for three hours to repair a spreader on the mainmast...