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...borough of Queens has had for its president since 1911 a corpulent Irish-American, Maurice E. Connolly, whose father used to hoe corn and dig potatoes where all is apartment buildings, pavements and sewers today. President Connolly, next-to-youngest in a family of eight, climbed to fame by willing work for the politicians whom he found in power when he emerged from the public schools and Columbia University's law department...
...homely, story-telling songs of the U. S., Carl Sandburg, modern minstrel, has changed the order of things. For years he has trekked from one end of the U. S. to the other, reading the rugged poems that have made his name, poems of smoke and steel and corn-husking smarting with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part on his programs but songs have come before the end. He pulls up a chair, takes his guitar, strums a measure or two and then will come the woeful, repetitious story of a moaning Carolina Negro, the whoopees...
Governor Theodore Christiansen of Minnesota, to urge a 50% increase in the tariff on Argentine corn...
...addition to the work in the Corn Islands, Peters will study the birds of an unfrequented desert region in Nicaragua, and expects to return to the University in April or May of next year...
...Corn Islands are inhabited by only a few natives, and a missionary, and are heavily wooded. Special arrangements have been made with a United Fruit Company boat to disembark the University expedition on the islands, which are not a port of call, and are at a considerable distance from the regular steamer lanes...