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...months ago President Hoover asked Will Rogers to crack a joke which would stop hoarding...
...best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand-outs to abolish poverty. He is sincere, earnest, hard-hitting, but even his legislative foes do not call him unfair. His chief weakness is that he has no responsibility except to himself and his own conscience...
...Pilot Young was a prisoner of war until he escaped to Italy in a box car. Back again in Iowa he organized the first company to sell Wartime "Jenny" planes, disposed of 50 at $5,000 each. Also he ran a flying school, went barnstorming, had his share of crack-ups from occasional foolhardiness. After directing the aviation program at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926) he was appointed Chief of Air Regulation under William Patterson MacCracken Jr., the first Assistant Secretary of the Commerce Department's newly formed Aeronautics Branch. In that capacity he issued to Mr. MacCracken Pilot...
...became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus and The Dwellers in the Western World...
...interesting communication-whether we are separate limbs of the same family tree. At least a score of Detroiters have commented on that letter of mine. . . . Now comes Mrs. Willard Sporleder of Calumet City, Ill. in your issue of the 13th with what smacks of being a nasty crack in ''. . . to there are programs on the air catering to physical and mental 7-year-olds." For myself - I am a publicist, aged 38- should check at least 12. For Stephen, aged 7 - he has already denied Santa Claus, read Alice in Wonderland and Huckleberry Finn, and plays a fairly...