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...Come Across", an omnibus of song, dance, tableau, satire, and horseplay, and all made to order by and for the Hasty Pudding cooks, was handsomely received last night by an audience whose every theatrical appetite must have been satisfied...
...their own section. I argued for six years for flood control on the upper streams that feed the Ohio and drain into the Mississippi before we finally got it into a bill which passed last session." Unfortunately, the bill to which Congressman Griswold referred was the $320,000,000 Omnibus Flood Control bill for which Congress failed to vote an appropriation. Last week chances were strong that Congressman Griswold and the rest of the Ohio River Valley would soon learn what Southerners learned in 1927: that the best means of getting Federal flood control money is to have a good...
...found the Act did not distinguish be tween the jurisdiction of Federal and State courts, recommended an omnibus code of U. S. law to include the Constitution, common law, Federal statutes and the laws of the several States which might arise in U. S. courts. Congress did nothing...
...Eleanor Roosevelt's White House press conferences, U. S.-born Mme Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, stately wife of the longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to the U. S., spun tales of oldtime Washington, likened her native land to "a quiet garden," war, scared Europe to "a crowded omnibus where any passenger can make trouble...
DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT-John I. B. McCulloch-Putnam ($3). A seasoned U. S. honeymooner in the Balkans since 1934 amateur Journalist McCulloch recalls his experiences in a chatty omnibus devoted to his sightseeing, anecdotes of political figures, his interviews with King Boris, the late Venizelos, Dowager Queen Marie...