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...Natchez, Miss, three members of Herbert Reed's family were hospitalized and two suffered at home after a two-month diet of lead arsenate. Bought for flower spray and left on a kitchen shelf, the poison had been tracked into the family's food and dishes by roaches and bugs...
With a smile on his face, some new scores in his trunk and a number of signed contracts in his pocket, Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Manhattan last fortnight from a two-month jaunt around Europe. Briskly he began to tell of plans for this winter's 14-week season in the nation's last remaining permanent opera company. There will be no reduction in box-office prices ($8 top). There will be fewer star performers singing at the Metropolitan...
With Roman temperatures averaging 77° last week and likely to go higher in August and September, 78-year-old Pope Pius XI directed his household to make ready to move out this week for a two-month stay at Castel Gandolfo. the rustic papal snuggery in the Alban Hills...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...
Also last week the House Committee on Un-American Activities purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true...