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That gave him the State's 16 convention votes. Dr. France was beaten on his home ground. Yet he managed to collect sufficient votes - 16,900 - to disturb the Hoover managers. What they could not explain was why so many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France...
...Fort, 57, author, heckler of Science; of acute enlargement of the heart; in New York. Year in, year out, he dug through newspaper files for stories of strange events contrary to scientific theory, put them in books (Lo!, The Book of the Damned, Wild Talents), invented supernatural theses to explain them. His "law of teleportation" explained the movement of solid objects (mud, frogs, periwinkles) through the air in magnetic paths...
Given a stock, smart Pressagent Plummer would "proceed to convince these financial newsboys that he had a good story." Congressman La Guardia added: 'He's been telling about some of these things lately, and since then he has been a harassed man, under indictment." Asked to explain the indictment, Mr. La Guardia said genially: "Well, it seems that he started to write a book, The Great American Swindle, or so he tells me ... and he says that in order to obtain some of his facts he had to act like a criminal. He was trying to show that forged securities...
Gigli's fellow-artists vigorously took up the rebuttal. Thirty-two signed a statement: "No serious pretext can explain such a behavior. . . . Mr. Gigli has during the current season profited from the sacrifice which we have made to keep the Metropolitan going and is again trying to get his full salary at the expense of all of us who are reducing our respective salaries. We protest against Mr. Gigli's lack of co-operation and esprit de corps...
What an admirable way to avoid the issue by calling in the supernatural to explain the business cycle! The dithyrambic clap-trap with which the editorial ends is a fitting conclusion to this remarkable display of intelligence: "The silence of agitators who failed to stir is a challenge made by uneasy, yet confident labor, to those in the saddle to apply the crop and spur to a steed from whom much must be expected in the future." Henry Ehrlich...