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...Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down...
...Chicago one afternoon last week some 5,000 schoolchildren, egged on by their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes...
Chicago's Press ignored the incident, and four days later a lot of the same schoolchildren were in another throng that trooped to the lakefront for a party at which Banker Dawes's sister-in-law officiated. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes broke a bottle of milk over the Magic Mountain on the Enchanted Island for children, formally opening this section of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...What schoolchildren puzzled by geography have often wished were true was loudly and abruptly asserted in Prague last week by the Rev. Father Hlinka. Shouted he: "There is no such nation as Czechoslovakia...
...schoolchildren will be asked to stay after school on ten Friday afternoons this winter but it will not be to clean blackboards or copy promises of good behavior. Their task has been allotted them by Conductor Leopold Stokowski who, finding it difficult "to give the hopeless generation new ideas," declared last week that he would try to make children like modernistic music by having them listen to his broadcasts...