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...club specializes in singing college songs as well as selections from light operettas. The mandolin club and the banjo club use between them all string instruments, wood-winds, traps, and various brasses, and the specially division offers opportunities to all men with talent as ventriloquists, magicians, trap artists and one-man bands...
Early last June a Michigan judge mounted his bench as a one-man grand jury to hear the history of the decline and fall of Detroit banking (TIME, Sept. 4 et ante). For three months the prosecutor deployed scores of witnesses across the stand. Last week Judge Harry B. Keidan declared the show over and handed down his findings: 1.) that there was no evidence of criminal action on the part of Detroit's bank officials; 2) that there was no evidence of "smart money" withdrawn prior to the St. Valentine's Day closing; and 3) "most powerfully...
Argentina's one-man Government, frustrated old Hipolito Irigoyen, died last July, stripped of power and mourned bitterly by 150,000 poor followers, including many who called themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas ("Personal Friends of Irigoyen"). Last week Irigoyen's ranch was put up for auction. A few "personal friends" showed up to buy his steers for $18 each, his horses...
Their show was good enough to get the nominal support of some of the other political groups. But the important ones turned their backs. Some of the ABC men admitted their support of the de Cespedes government had been a mistake and threw in with the Junta. Other ABC men drove through Havana in automobiles bristling with machine-guns. One thousand joined the commissioned officers in the National Hotel. The strongest one-man organization in Cuba, the followers of bearded ex-President Mario G. Menocal, joined with the officers in demanding that the Junta appoint a President and Cabinet, someone...
...banks . . . were wrecked by the philosophy that money in the hands of the masses was a menace," shouted Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, testifying before Judge Harry B. Keidan, the one-man grand jury. "These white-carnation bankers and stockmarket gamblers were not to blame. They had been brought up in the school of Ricardo*; and John Stuart Mill and more latterly, Mr. Herbert Hoover." Father Coughlin was putting on a one-man show for the one-man jury. Much to the delight of a hot pack of Detroiters who squeezed into the courtroom...