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Suddenly the class tensed as a bugle shrilled in the Yard, staccato commands barked out, and there was a sound of marching feet. As every neck craned to get a view from the high old-fashioned windows, a band crashed into a swinging melody, and there was a scattering cheer from the dormitories opposite. The suave instructor walked indifferently to the window, heedless of the forgotten Horace. He watched the maneuvres below a minute, smiled, exclaimed "Cripes, ain't that great!" and then, "Class dismissed!" The army had come...
...early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...this cheer was for morale, to cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid by daffy cancer-phobes. It seemed wise to right-face concerning cancer, sound an encouraging clarion...
...directly responsible for this G. 0. P. campaign was plump, easy-going National Chairman Everett Sanders. A small-bore Indiana politician, he appeared to his colleagues to be completely swamped by the magnitude of his job. Last week in Manhattan he beamed serious good cheer. "The campaign," he insisted, "is going along very well. We are in splendid condition. The country is Republican by several million votes. We have a good Republican President. . . . The tour of Governor Roosevelt through the West has tremendously helped the Republican party...
...with all the great oil producing nations except Russia. Terms of the pact are thought to bind Rumania to keep oil production down to 1930's level, to enforce further reductions in proportion to any drop in consumption below 1930's rate. But this news caused little cheer to oilmen in the U. S., for once again their industry faced a crisis...