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...Hoover campaign of 1932 will probably be long remembered for the extremes to which the President, justified or not, went in his effort to keep a grip on the Federal Government. At Des Moines he sent a shudder through the financial world by declaring that the U. S. had been "within two weeks" of going off the gold standard last winter. In New York he seriously predicted that a Democratic victory would "crack the timbers of the Constitution" and cause "grass to grow in the streets'' of many an industrial city. In his West Coast speech last week...
...Wardensville, W. Va., Wilbur H. Long said to his children: "Now I'll show you how to skin the cat." He climbed a tree, "skinned the cat," lost his grip, fell on his head, died...
...enough to buy a Locomobile steamer. Tinkerish by nature, they soon were at the boiler and saw a way to improve it. The Locomobile company was not interested, so the Whites built a steamer of their own in 1900. They soon were in commercial production and obtaining a tight grip on all steam patents. The result was that other manufacturers turned to gasoline engines, started propaganda against steamers. In 1906 White offered to license its patents but found no takers. Quick to sense the change, the management turned to gasoline engines although it did not waver in its belief that...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...