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...Chicago the name Carpenter stood for everything which could be used aboard a ship from marline-spikes to anchors. Lake shippers used to congregate by the dozen in George Carpenter's ship-chandlery, grown now to deal in mill and railroad supplies. But the Carpenter name has outgrown the business. People all over the U. S. are becoming acquainted with the music of John Alden Carpenter, the late Chandler George...
Even country schoolteachers have outgrown the platitude: "Be good, and maybe you'll grow up to be president." But last week in Iowa, the platitude was given such new life and validity that its vogue may well return at once...
...those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries of War, Navy, and Air, amalgamated in a single. Ministry of Defense. The Air Minister, plump, bearded Italo Balbo, who has listened...
...home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little beside his Congressional salary, now cut from $10.000 to $9,000. He is married, has one son named for his famed father. He attends the Methodist church, has few sports or diversions. Feeling that he has outgrown the House, he is a candidate for Georgia's Democratic senatorial nomination. Primary day is Sept. 14. Opposing him is 34-year-old Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.. son of the State's prolific, tobacco-chewing Chief Justice. Governor Russell appointed Major John Sanford Cohen, publisher of the Atlanta...
...Tommy Paul, Buffalo boxer: the world's professional featherweight championship by beating Johnny Pena of Manhattan in the National Boxing Association's contest for Battalino's outgrown title; in Detroit...