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...leader of a band of Bowery urchins who play harmonicas on street corners to pick up stray pennies, Miss Temple accidentally crashes the high society of the 1930's and finally ends up playing little Eva in "Uncls Tem's Cabin...
...added i? to the price of every basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost...
...That a groundswell of public sentiment for old age pensions is rising was indicated last week by results of a New York Herald Tribune questionnaire. Of nearly 5,000 U. S. newspaper and farm journal editors who replied, two-thirds reported their communities solidly behind some compulsory government sys tem of old age pensions. Of many another New Deal plank, only minimum wages and maximum working hours got a bare majority of editors' eyes. Says Dr. Townsend: "Poverty once considered a natural curse which the human race was doomed to endure, can and will be abolished in the United States...
...President pro tem, of the Senate, Langer's David Hamilton, demanded: "Senator Fine, will you answer to the roll call when your name is called?" "Not at this time, Mr. President." Langer supporters gathered around the captive to persuade him. Finally President Hamilton, shaking with laughter, leaned over and called confidentially to newshawks at the press table below: "Well, we have lots of fun anyway...
...Senator did not confine himself to the Governor's desk. Bobbing along Capitol corridors on his short legs, he invaded committee rooms, jerked bills from the hands of their authors, rewrote them to suit himself. When the President pro tem of the Senate offended him, Huey Long marched into the well, demanded his resignation...