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...candidate, he hinted in a shout, must be Mr. Roosevelt. "He is our Lincoln," cried Young Hickory. To grumblers who beef because the President will not declare himself on the third term he had an answer, presumably straight from headquarters: "Why should Franklin Roosevelt be the one man in all public life now committed to accept or not accept a nomination? . . . We do not want to put the greatest asset of the Democratic party in hock...
Cordell Hull thinks he can explain this to Congress and the public this year. Many politicos are less certain, and the Republican high command is sure Mr. Hull will be rolled over a barrel of imported Argentine beef. It was the farm bloc who wrote the Emergency Tariff of 1921, the Fordney-McCumber tariff boost of 1922, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Republicans may again become "friends of the farmer." Last week Mr. Hull said he welcomed an investigation, if it were not made by chums of the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
Stories of unsolidarity among Allied troops inevitably trickled into Paris at the heels of men home on this war's first furlough. Metropolitan troops from Tunis were said to have been in a state of near mutiny ever since their arrival in France, heaving bread and canned corned beef at their officers, obliging the French to keep them surrounded by a constant guard. The 31st French infantry, after marching 120 kilometres (72 mi.) in three days, refused to march the fourth day, threw their arms into ditches, sat down in the road. They were not punished...
Most of the $500,000 passes to Boston wholesalers through the hands of Roy L. Westcott, manager of the University Dining Halls, who every morning buys tons of Hubbard squash, emince of beef, and other edibles requisitioned by the dining hall stewards...
...made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East Indian dish is Ryst-Tafel, which is both a ceremony and a dinner. It has a base of rice, and consists of a hundred or more side dishes including fried chicken, fried pork, beef, the entire gamut of spices, fried bananas, fried shrimps, cucumbers, pickles, ginger, eggs in every conceivable form, all served by a waiters' corps of 20. Experienced East Indian Dutchmen go to bed for a couple of hours after eating Ryst-Tafel...