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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium most tourists find prices attractively cheap, seldom notice the peculiarities of Belgium's liquor control system which drives many a native frantic. Only in the case of Belgians returning home do Belgian customs men search mercilessly for smuggled bottles...
...stores and fortune in 1930. Month ago a stranger approached him, said that he was Armgaard Karl Graves, Wartime spy of the German Secret Service and author of Secrets of the Hohenzollerns, that he and friends had buried $3,000,000 in gold on the coast of Haiti. To search for the treasure Clarence Saunders gave him $1,500, saw no more...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pushed his land reclamation program ahead another notch by organizing a party to search for a grass hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted...
...prophecy of Simeon; 2) the flight into Egypt; 3) the search for Jesus in the Temple; 4) the meeting with Him on His way to Calvary; 5) the Crucifixion; 6) the reception of His body; 7) the closing of His tomb...
Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...