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...shrewd gasoline-pump man on Highway 65 put signs on two pumps?Hoover Gas and Smith Gas? same price, same grade. He then kept tab on the gallons bought at each pump. Customers bought heavily to boost their candidate. Smith...
...boost hospitals higher on their toes the College of Surgeons last week insisted that hospitals follow up their patients for six months after discharge. This is to make certain what good, or ill, the hospital does to its clients. Another bolster is the requirement that all approved hospitals hold staff meetings at least once a month and make doctors explain just why any of their patients died...
...squat old boat on which Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies used to gather, eat fish, drink other things, discuss how to run Chicago, how to BOOST Chicago. They called it the Fish Fans' Club, because somebody caught a fish there once. Recently, the boat sprang a leak and squatted down in five feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor...
...silly bulletin if only because the news columns of the World contain the writings of able Charles Michelson, an oldtimer, whom the World sends around the country to see the Nominees, visit the doubtful states and to write, whenever he can, stories that will boost the Brown Derby. His Republican equivalent is found in Carter Field, thoroughly partisan chief of the Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. The Field despatches deal with anything and everything political, except foreign policy, which until lately has usually been handled by Henry Cabot Lodge (grandson), another Near-Pundit, stalking about on errands...
...debt to the U. S. as soon as the Mellon-Berenger agreement is ratified. The difference in annual payments is only the difference between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 (the Mellon-Berenger scale) but to have to pay out $400,000,000 in a lump would boost the French budget by 20%. Mr. Mellon replied to M. Poincaré that he could not, so near the end of his term, undertake the responsibility of waiving the $400,000,000 collection, which had come due through no fault of the U. S. but through France's failure...