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...late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine...
...President David Dubinsky of the independent International Ladies' Garment Workers said in Manhattan: "Mr. Lewis is counting his labor votes long before they are hatched. The wage earners of America . . . will line up solidly in sup port of President Roosevelt . . . should he choose...
They arrived in Manhattan to sup at the house of a Lincoln student off Park Avenue. Next day, fresh-cheeked and inquisitive, they rode a subway to Wall Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which owns some of their mines). In rapid succession during the next six days, pausing only to eat and take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power...
Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...invented by a Spanish monk in the 16th Century nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety. In the original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...