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Mexico. I sent the rug to Albuquerque and have the receipt of the postmaster there that the parcel was delivered all right...
...office the Davila Government began to run short of funds, ordered carabineers to raid all the jewelry shops in Santiago, a work they performed with a will. Lest this seizing of valuables from helpless jewelers be called "confiscation" the carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government...
...religious prejudices which he arouses in many sections combined with his receipt short-sighted pronouncements on economic problems make it almost certain that Mr. Smith himself is not a possible Democratic standard bearer. Many will therefore suspect that because of a feeling that Mr. Roosevelt, too, is headed for defeat, he is turning his attention to feathering a Cabinet nest under some other congenial Democratic president. But the apparent sincerity of his outspoken concern for the success of his party will probably carry even more weight with his former supporters and with those who are now content to follow...
...barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there helpless all night. One Tom Marcum went out in his yard at Piney Grove, Ala., picked up and returned somebody's receipt book to Northport, 16 miles away. At 4 p. m. the tornado struck the Tuscaloosa Country Club. At 4:15 p. m. members began rummaging among the ruins for their golf clubs...
...conference in a row. Reason: preoccupation with his Message to Congress on the State of the Union (see col. 3). Calvin Coolidge used to finish his Messages a week or more before Congress sat, distribute them in advance to the Press in time for mailing to the Pacific coast. Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents. But because President Hoover was slow finishing his, the public prints last week rioted in guesswork. Asked whether it would be long or short, Private Secretary Joslin gravely declared: "All I can say at this time...