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...Lincoln, Neb., 10,000 applauding citizens looked up into the chubby face of the country's only living ex-President, who in turn beamed down upon them. Herbert Hoover was about to assault the New Deal on its once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton to 5? a pound.' He felt the same about...
...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...
...skirts of the Imperial Victoria will swish and the unctuous tones of Disraeli will whisper in the council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
Newshawks were barred but bulletins, telephoned down to an obliging Hutton hireling, were popped through the grilled entrance. "Now they're walking down the aisle," he yelled. "Now they're being married. . . . It's all over and he kissed her twice, once on each cheek...
Died. Joel Owsley Cheek, 83, retired coffee tycoon (Maxwell House), church worker, philanthropist; of pneumonia; in Jacksonville, Fla. After years of peddling coffee from house to house on horseback he organized Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., retired in 1928 when the company was sold to General Foods at a reputed price...