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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manuel L. Quezon, the little brown cricket who for three years has been the Philippine Commonwealth's first President, passed his 60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his birthday by a two-day national party-speeches, parades, festivals. The party wound up with a giant ball in Manila to raise-in more democratic tradition-anti-tuberculosis funds. To punctuate the festivities he addressed 40,000 students & teachers. His subject: the state of the Philippine soul...
Reason for the 1938 program and its attendant complexities was that cotton farmers last year cultivated 34,471,000 acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began...
...friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their wives, ending the night's festivities with a showing of the cinema Naughty Marietta. Another time he wound up the season's social program with a dinner for three rarely dined Red Army marshals...
Years later, on his deathbed, one of the students confessed the substitution and willed Haydn's real skull to a friend who passed it on to a well-known Viennese doctor. Eventually it wound up in the possession of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, who placed it on exhibition in 1895. Meanwhile, the heirs of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's friend and patron, had built a magnificent mausoleum in Eisenstadt for Haydn's remains, but refused to have them buried in it without his head. For many years legal complications have held up Haydn...
Wheat. In 1915 U. S. farmers harvested 1,008,637,000 bu. of wheat, dumped their surplus into warring Europe, wound up the year with handsome profits. Never before or since has the annual yield topped a billion bushels. Last week's estimates, however, placed the 1938 yield between 1,020,623,000 and 1,045,623,000 bu., on top of a 200,000,000-bu. carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable...