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...conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
...prolonged wrangle over the $4,880,000.000 relief appropriation; 4) the second three months were distinguished by passage of the Greenback Bonus Bill which was vetoed; 5) the seventh month was marked by the passage of the dubious National Labor Relations Act. Most of Senator Robinson's pride sprang from what happened in Congress during the last month when the Social Security Act, the Motor Carriers Act, the Spanish War Veterans Act were put through, when conference committees rounded out the Congressional record for 1935 with the following work done...
...most important effort. It was the sensation of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. None admired it more than that descendant of a long line of Marbleheaders, General John Henry Devereux of Civil War fame, who bought and presented it to Marblehead. His interest in the picture sprang in no small measure from the fact that his small son, the late Harry Kelsey...
...This sweeping debarment of Germans was purely hypothetical last week but nonetheless real. It sprang from a ruling by the hot-tempered little Mayor that, because the Nazi State, in his opinion, discriminates against certain U. S. citizens, mostly Jews, in Germany, therefore New York's municipal government will not issue licenses to Germans which it would otherwise be compelled to issue under...
After somewhat fantastic genealogical research the late Queen Victoria became obstinately convinced that her Royal Family is descended from Biblical King David. Today Emperor Power of Trinity is as obstinately convinced that his ancestors sprang from the loins of Biblical King Solomon, son of David. Thus British and Ethiopian royalty would be related by a faint strain of Jewish blood. George V, who does not share his grandmother's enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary...