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...asserted that President Coolidge's reluctance to a special session sprang from political reasons. Summoned, Congress might make a flood appropriation; then open up the Vare scandal and the Smith scandal, consider an anti-third term resolution, in general prove embarrassing to the President...
...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...
When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead...
...then explained that since the American sprang from humble origins transplanted on a barren shore, it is of little wonder that he is artistically an ignoramus...
...Actors Theatre also plans to expand into a greater, national institution. Under the brilliant direction of Guthrie McClintic, it sprang suddenly from an obscure, uncoordinated giant organization into what may yet become the most potent, impressively endowed theatre company in the world. With numberless artists at its disposal, it needs only a few more plays like Saturday's Children to carry Director McClintic's vaulting ambition over the first hurdle. He hopes, eventually, to gather a permanent company of over 200 actors, whose province, necessarily, will include theatres far from Manhattan. All this may not come about next...