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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently a weary crew of French soldiers, repatriated from Spain, paraded from a Paris railroad station to the Bastille. At their head was a stocky, popeyed member of the Chamber of Deputies, André Marty, who had been away in Spain most of the last two years fighting with Leftist International Brigades...
...Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul's is one of the few prominent U. S. preparatory schools that still has the same belief...
Asked to name the three outstanding men in the history of Philadelphia, a 12-year-old schoolboy last week replied: "William Penn, Benjamin Franklin and Connie Mack." That day the surviving member of this trio, Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy), celebrated his 76th birthday, went down to his office just as he has done for the 38 years he has been managing the Philadelphia Athletics, announced that he hopes to have one more pennant winner before he retires from baseball-at a date still unspecified...
High in the Andes dwells the vicuña, an undersized member of the camel family. Fast as the antelope, agile as the chamois, the goatish little vicuña, which lives only at altitudes over 12,000 ft., has to be killed to be captured-otherwise he spits in your eye and runs away...
...present, Elvira ("Vivi") Fairchild: "Debs would have more fun if they could have this type of a party." Said Tugboat Minnie: "My feet hurt. ... Do you think I should have let myself in for this stunt?" Twenty-five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden...