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...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
Hearstpapers. advertisements, handbills, letters, posters were spreading these slogans throughout the land last week. Organizations to boost the "Buy American" idea, adapted from the "Buy British" movement-(see p. 23), have been mushrooming for the last half year. When the Saturday Evening Post featured an exhortation by Samuel George Blythe to "Buy American" early last month, the movement assumed nation-wide proportions. And last week in its behalf William Randolph Hearst turned on his big publicity machine...
...last week. Texas Co., which led the way, downed its posted price from $1.10 to 75? a barrel. Oilmen had seen the cut coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks had become unwieldy. An abortive effort was made last October to boost the price of crude, but two Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels. Though such stout proration-ists as President Charles Bismark Ames of American Petroleum Institute insisted that the Supreme Court decision does not impair the power of states to regulate production...
...newsreel photographers, traffic cops and star reporters. The occasion was just one more debut. A product of Manhattan's lower East Side was going to show how he could sing. But this one's name happened to be Alfred Emanuel Smith. He was making a debut to boost the New York Infirmary for Women & Children for which Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip's comely, energetic wife collects funds...
Died. Oramel Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...