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...cooperation. From the White House the President pressed a key which closed an electric circuit which exploded some dynamite which broke the ground for the projected San Francisco-Oakland Bay ("World's Greatest") Bridge. On Goat Island, in the middle of the bay, Citizen Hoover shoved a golden spade into the ground...
...Schneider Trophy for Great Britain landed at about 90 m. p. h. At Orbetello, 60 mi. from Rome, 100 aviators are being drilled, trained and watched like crack athletes at the Scuola di Navigazione Aerea (long distance school). The airmen are the pilots, navigators & crews of 24 seaplanes which spade-bearded General Italo Balbo will lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair. The 6,280-mi. flight will be made via Iceland, Greenland and Montreal in daily hops, the longest of which is 1,560 mi. from Iceland to Labrador. Last week an advance squad...
...WANTS BUT LITTLE-Wilson Wright-Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor...
Maisky. While these fireworks sizzled in Moscow, diplomatic spade work went on in London. Soviet Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia...
...grave. Viking Press issued the kind of book that was like a call of boots & saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also underlines a recent tendency of U. S. publishers: to go as near the limits of censorship as possible...