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...greatest show and heartiest picnic on earth is now Germany's annual get-together of roughly a million Nazis at what is called the "Party Congress" in Nürnberg. Around this city of 416.000 souls last week again sprang up the spreading tent towns in which Nazi boys & girls, youths and maidens, fathers and mothers, bachelors and spinsters, grandfathers and grandmothers sleep on straw couches. This year above their& canvas rose a dramatic "Tent of Light"-150 searchlights placed in a circle in such a way that their four-million-watt shafts of light met above...
...delivery. He paid due homage to the early presidents of this college and to our pilgrim fore-fathers whose devotion brought us our present greatness. More ceremonies, long and solemn, and then to the Pavilion for the festive part of the precedings. My heart bubbled to see the spaicous tent, the garlands, the festoons. Clatter of plates and glasses formed a song for the celebration. Soon speeches by Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college. Fine words and much sense from Mr. Webster who expounded...
...Detroit last week 4,000 Packard dealers and distributors from all over the U. S. assembled for an infusion of inspiration. A barbecue dinner was served in a huge circus tent. President Alvan Macauley announced that Packard sales for the first eight months of 1936 had been 43,459 cars or 70% above a year ago. And on display, along with the Packard Twelve, the Packard Super-Eight, the Packard Eight and the Packard One-Twenty, was a brand new Packard Six with a 115 in. wheelbase priced to retail in the $800 class. This latest and cheapest addition...
Last week, while working on a farm, Vito Geneva was again stung by bees in the armpit. He went home, entertained friends, slept soundly, rose in the morning, collapsed. His doctor called for an oxygen tent, treated him for shock for five hours. Then Vito Geneva died...
...resplendent uniform. Edward VIII wore a dark grey morning coat. Though rain soon began to patter, ladies whose expensive garden frocks were being ruined remained so obviously eager to drop their curtsies to His Majesty anyhow that he permitted them to continue until presentees began entering the durbar tent in sopping and sodden condition...