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...Little Oklahoma has become East Salinas, unincorporated, with a population of some 6,000, half of them former migrants. The original Hebbron tract has become Hebbron Heights with new stucco or brightly painted five-room frame houses crowding out vestiges of the old tar-paper shacks...
...dawned Monday, March 4, in Washington, seventh anniversary of the New Deal-seven years since the miserable, slushy day he rode, face grave, to the Inauguration ceremonies beside haggard Herbert Hoover. In mufti-no sugar-scoop coat-trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons...
Sculptor Fingesten works chiefly in concrete and stucco, gets his variety of texture and color by mixing pigments into the wet cement or plaster, coating some figures with beeswax, finishing others with shellacs and acids...
...miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume...
...Hollywood-by-the-Sea, just north of Miami, Fla., stands an $800,000 Spanish stucco hotel. Most of the time it sleeps silently in the sun. But one morning this week a bugle call shook it awake. Out of its rooms rushed some 600 smartly uniformed boys. They lined up for breakfast formation, began the winter term of the Riverside Military Academy...