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Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
...Interior and Public Works offices under Mr. Ickes, sweating to put Federal billions to work. There are many cross-assignments, touching the Treasury's work. A switch of last week in the Home Loan Bank Board, stepping Vice Chairman John H. Fahey up to replace William Francis ("Steamboat Bill") Stevenson, was significant. Stevenson is a big, loose-jointed South Carolina politician, a defeated Congressman. Fahey is a Massachusetts publisher and businessman. He has been doing most of Stevenson's work?starting up a $2,000,000,000 building & loan company with 12,000 employes?while easy-going Stevenson...
...industry has wondered who would be given charge of aeronautics in the Department of Commerce. Last week President Roosevelt divided the job among live men headed by Ewing Y. Mitchell of Springfield, Mo. as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. (He will probably also direct the Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection, the Coast & Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Bureau, possibly the U. S. Shipping Board.) Eugene L. Vidd, whose beauteous, dark-haired wife is daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development...
...southern tip lies the Travel & Transport Building. From a grandstand across the street the visitor may see the oxcarts, covered wagons, automobiles, ships, trains, airplanes of a century's travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
...studio" over a garage he spent hours coaxing a pair of mice out of their hole onto his drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With...