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...Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents had to watch their young to keep them from sneaking up telephone poles. Developments were rapid...
Indeed, when seven members of California's Bohemian Club* were asked to write on a slip of paper the name of the most potent westerner of the present generation, five of the ballots bore the name of Paul Shoup...
...that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes of his political triumphs' he muffled them under a flow of small-bore conversation...
...front cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit?a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers...
...singer was Gabriel Mirabeau, a boy of 15 with a stocky figure and a face that bore marks of the pox in puffy profusion. His audience was his tutor, to whose reprovals he was retorting. Indignant, the tutor reported the cause of the reproval to Mirabeau Sr.: "Must I confess to you, Monsieur, that his ways have already forced me to dismiss two maids...