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...Jersey State Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade...
...year war with Germany. Having entered World War I along with Italy, its neighbor and protector, San Marino forgot to show up when peace treaties were signed at Sevres and Versailles. Everyone else forgot about San Marino. Even when the tiny Republic's new pro-Fascist twin regents outdid their master himself by both appearing on the same City Hall balcony to announce that everything was all changed now, San Marino hadn't quite caught up with current history; it is still at war with Turkey. No one thought about changing that after the last war either, until...
Fighting mad over this reaction, Mitch fairly outdid himself by "exposing" on the very next day "a violent disturbance" at the air training centre near St. Thomas, Ont., where he declared several hundred fed-up and disgusted recruits had gone A. W. O. L. The New York Post gave the story front-page prominence, headlining it "Mutiny," and the German radio broadcast it as evidence of disunion in Canada. "I did not mention the word mutiny or the word riot," hedged Mitch. "I said there was a violent disturbance and there was." Norman Rogers, Canadian Minister of Defense, promptly...
...activity." Wielder of many an ice pack in the past, fleshy Clifton Woodrum has taken an oath, and made the rest of his sub-committee swear, not to let any bill get past the committee if its appropriation exceeds the President's budget estimate. Last week Congressman Woodrum outdid himself...
...number of Autry fans, however, when added up, is colossal. Recently, on a tour of Great Britain, where he was living proof of the fond British belief that the U. S. is still quite woolly, he outdid Gracie Fields's attendance records in her own bailiwick, in Dublin paraded before 750,000. In the Motion Picture Herald's, annual Exhibitors' Ten Best for 1939, Autry was top Western star for the third straight year, a record made phenomenal by the fact that his pictures rarely if ever have hit the big, first-run theatres, but pile...