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Wherever any President goes a curious crowd congregates; wherever a politician speaks a good campaign manager can drum up an enthusiastic audience. But the newshawks who followed Franklin Roosevelt across the country had never seen such crowds, had never heard such cheers as greeted him. Through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois?at every city and hamlet there were people by the railroad tracks. Uninvited thousands drove hundreds of miles across the blistering plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks...
...Raised cheer on cheer for that popular John Bull, bottle-nosed Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as he championed the Government's big Air Force program in homely phrases against a Labor motion of censure and let fall a sentence which rang round the world. "Since the day of the air the old frontiers are gone," cried Orator Baldwin, "and when you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the white cliffs of Dover, but you think of the Rhine. That is where, today, our frontier lies...
...soon as War Commissar "Klim" saw the over-sized cavalry geldings lumbering into one another and his men swinging wildly at the white willow-root ball, he began to cheer. His own Captain Horovenko, playing No. 1 for the "Red" team after six weeks of teaching, was crowding Mr. Thayer, No. 1 for the "White" team, for individual honors. The West Pointer could hit but Captain Horovenko could ride. The All-Russian "Red" team beat its coach, 5 to 4. Commissar "Klim" congratulated his men hoarsely: "The horses were less efficient than the riders. It was a hard-fought, clean...
...crowd gave him a cheer and then marched back down hill to listen to Lawyer Langer speak at the Patterson Hotel...
When five-year-old Shirley Temple performed in Stand Up and Cheer (TIME, April 30) she got $150 a week. Notables like Warner Baxter, Madge Evans and James Dunn, who appeared in the same picture, got from $1,000 to $3,000. Shirley Temple's songs, smiles and capers made the picture profitable. They also marked her for that Hollywood rarity, a natural overnight star who needed no press buildup...