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...Hotel Pennsylvania to tell all they knew about a recondite railroad subject-freight forwarding companies. In the course of its questioning the I. C. C. not only learned a great deal about freight forwarding but uncovered a number of facts which sent newshawks scurrying to proclaim a trunk line FREIGHT...
...Beaumont, Tex. Trainer Lee Roberta of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus forgot to speak gently to Trilby, a one-eyed elephant, when awakening her. Trilby woke up irritably, grabbed him in her trunk, whacked him against a wall, stomped him to death. Next day circus officials reported that Trilby was in constant tears...
...front rank of his votaries but a 2-year-old elephant, bedizened with sunflowers, bedecked with a blanket handsomely inscribed, "Susanna." "Well," exclaimed Mr. Landon cordially, "This is a surprise! How are you?" The crowd cheered as Susanna, lured by several lumps of sugar, finally lifted her swaying trunk to the candidatorial hand. Mr. Landon shook it heartily. Susanna snorted. Boasted Nominee Landon as his train drew out: "She knew me. I distinctly heard her say 'Are you Alf Landon...
When the last trunk has been delivered to Wigglesworth, the Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of student laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for those students who wish to have these bundles picked up and receipted for at the dormitory, avoiding the weekly trudge to the postoffice...
...afternoon last week telephone operators in Paris, Lisbon and Genoa kept telling people trying to get a line into Spain that the trunk lines to that country had all gone dead. They stayed dead for some 16 hours. Early next morning one short message came over the wire: ''There have been incidents. . . . The number of victims is not yet known." Something big was happening behind the silence and the heavily guarded Spanish frontiers. It was the climax to five months of Popular Front Government, of Socialist and Communist rioting, and of some 250 deaths by violence...