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...complete understanding and a private joke. When Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...
...extended when he recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Until they read that President Roosevelt has charged their Government with flagrant breach of faith (TIME, Sept. 2), that Moscow replied last week by rejecting and refusing to argue the charge, and that Secretary of State Cordell Hull thereupon recorded the Red breach upon white paper for future reference (see p. 11), Russians will continue to believe that Moscow & Washington are the best of friends...
...been repaired? Was the image the actual corpse of Lenin? Last week Comrade Zbarsky indignantly answered such calumnies: "All the legends circulated abroad concerning a decaying condition of the body are false. On the contrary, we are now more than ever certain of the infallibility of our method." Thereupon it was announced that by October the Lenin tomb would be air-conditioned. Zbarsky had been fearful lest on warm days currents of air set in motion by throngs of pilgrims prove "injurious" to the body. After the conditioning equipment is installed it was thought that Lenin could safely be viewed...
Setting his square jaw, Governor Allred thereupon refused two more appeals from convicted murderers...
...North American Clay Target Champion was Joe Hiestand, 28-year-old farmer of Hillsboro, Ohio, who, when he broke 199 out of the first 200 birds, found himself tied with nine other shooters. Thereupon he broke 100 straight for the title...