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...York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing at an old briar pipe, did his best to brighten things up. About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute to his "Americanism." "Come on, Theo," cried he to Mrs. Landon, "let's get our picture took while we still have a chance." Theo Landon was brave, too. A big, red-white-&-blue "Landon Victory Cake" lay untouched on the sideboard. "Maybe," said...
...cadets and soldiers under obstinate Commandant José Moscardó had withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds...
Bankrupt Cinemactor Reginald Denny two months ago set up a model airplane factory in Hollywood, started producing a six-foot monoplane powered by a single-cylinder, 1/5-horsepower gasoline engine. To lure financial backing, he last week sent a Denny standard model zooming from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought...
...six-foot, 240-lb., 61-year-old master politician, standing near the President of the U. S. in Harvard Yard, had between him and the U. S. Senate a slim political stripling who. with an umbrella over his damp silk hat, was a mere marshal among Harvard's alumni in the crowd below...
...outside its walls. "All right!" called an Alcázar cadet, "Come and rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept. 5 the calibre of Red guns picking at the Alcázar was up to six inches, but its six-foot walls stood firm. Next day a White plane flew over the fortress, dropped large packages of foodstuffs. Red batteries finally splintered to bits an ornate door frame of the Alcázar known as "The Portal of the Blood of Christ...