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...Hurray for Huey Long and his pajamas!" shrieked the throng. After booing their own Governor because he was not a "Drop-a-Cropper," the 7,000 Texas farmers adopted a resolution endorsing unqualifiedly the Long plan for no 1932 cotton planting...
...excited Filipinos turned out on their best behavior to welcome "Eyes & Ears." Governor General Dwight Filley Davis had proclaimed a national holiday. With Vice Governor General George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary of War came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
Eruption. Only volcano in the continental U. S. is Mount Lassen, Calif. Its last real eruption occurred in 1914. But last week its crater was stuffed with smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and red fire which were set off before a large throng to simulate another eruption and mark the dedication of Lassen National Park. Chief speaker: Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from the U. S. a few days earlier with Endres' wife and small son; and Capt. Magyar's mother, an aged villager who had not seen her son for five years...
...Vatican printshop last fortnight went a long document entitled Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...