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What came on Thanksgiving evening was a blizzard, confirming a prophecy plastered on all of Lord & Taylor's windows the previous week while inside the windows an artificial snow storm of unbleached corn flakes swirled in a frosty void. Display Director O'Clare thought that one up, and L. & T.'s President Walter Hoving defended it against the conservative protest of the Fifth Avenue Association which has a rule against "motion or sound...
Unimaginative directing by Michael Curtis doesn't do much to redeem the triteness of this theme. And when Mr. Cagney turns out to have a heart of gold the picture degenerates into another blurb about the nobility of gangsters. "Down on the Farm," a Jones Family feature which concerns corn, both of the cob and jug variety, is naive but rather amusing...
...salaries of Port of New York Authority employes, making them subject to Federal income tax, was that the Authority, an autonomous body set up jointly by New York and New Jersey, is not essential to the existence of either State (TIME, June 13). If that kind of corn is good for the Federal gander, argued New York's Attorney General John J. Bennett in a brief he filed with Supreme Court last week, then it is also good for State geese...
...flourishing textile industry, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned fruits. Britain also boosted the quota for hams and gave guarantees that ham and cotton would remain duty free...
...discontent of farmers over AAA's failure to elevate corn and wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even...