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...followed the edge of the Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William Fellows...
...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...
Play Santa Claus to Louisiana millers...
...cheerful side of the infantile paralysis problem, Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia University declared: "Although it is premature to draw any definite conclusions from this preliminary report, there seems to be a strong probability that Vitamin C, when injected in the proper dose, possesses distinct therapeutic power in experimental poliomyelitis...
...unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes, issues. And then in 48 states men marched to the polls and overwhelmed the New Deal with the greatest majority ever given to a party...