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Third Gun. Herbert Hoover, still the Party's titular leader and now, after his public renunciation of Presidential ambitions (TIME, May 25), more popular than at any time since 1928, was welcomed at the Cleveland station by a cheering mob. He was kept in a political goldfish bowl until the hour of his speech. To prevent jealousy, forestall rumors of intrigue, no candidate or candidate's henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President...
...banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres of condemned residential property, 200 acres in all. The old Fair Park stadium became the "Cotton Bowl," and the job of being bold enough to please the hearts of Texas' heroes, and to attract a profitable gate, began...
Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics, presented a third trophy, the tennis bowl, to the manager of the Bellboy netmen, and spoke on the value of managers to athletics...
...Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll. By the time...
...once bound this country together has given way to endless fields under a parching sun. Finally, to mournful music by Composer Thomson, are shown the ravages of the drifting dust that followed when drought, heat and winds struck the acres that should never have been plowed. From the Dust Bowl in their automobiles, in the summer of 1935, emigrate 30,000 refugees a month to seek whatever jobs they can on the roads leading Westward. Epilog of the film shows how the Resettlement Administration is transplanting 4,500 stranded families to new houses on small farms in ten States...