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...rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores of serpents are caught, imprisoned in the kiva. The priests dip them into jars of a sacred liquid, allow them to dry, then put them into dry jars to await the ceremony. All night long before the appointed day the drums beat slowly, mournfully while the Hopi fast...
After a long search Warsaw police found Patricia, 4, daughter of U. S. Consul Stewart Earl McMillin. She was sitting patiently in a restaurant. A strange man had accosted her in a park while her nurse was not watching. Shrewd, hungry, he had taken her to the restaurant, consumed a hearty meal, told the proprietor he had forgotten his purse, left the child as "surety" while he went home for money, never returned...
...years later he sold the club to the State and with Oilman Frederick Lawrence Bailliere of Tulsa, Okla. bought a new site nine miles northeast of Stoutland on which they began raising rainbow trout commercially. Trout raising proved unprofitable, so they decided to raise goldfish and went in search of a goldfish expert...
...There are between ten and twelve million unemployed. . . . Men and women search the garbage cans, especially in the more prosperous neighborhoods, for food that has been left?men competing with rats and stray cats of the street. . . . That's how the celebrated law of supply & demand works under Capitalism! . . . The situation is worse rather than better in State after State, especially in those hells on earth, the bituminous coal mining camps. Next winter offers no hope except a complete breakdown, made more terrible by riots and actual starvation...
...small list of bankers and firms which doubted the late felonious match tycoon. It was that of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of Manhattan. In January 1931, the bank lent Kreuger & Toll $1,000,000. Vice President Roger Whittlesey then began to check up on Kreuger & Toll statistics, to search for more adequate information. He wrote letters abroad, never received convincing answers. In September the loan was called...