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...Purge cartoons Franklin Roosevelt's remarks last fortnight about the "immorality" of Republicans voting in Democratic primaries had the effect last week of driving a new herd of the vanishing Republican elephants through the nation's cartoons. The Elephant came back in many guises, as a sea monster, a daydreaming tippler, a muezzin, a Peeping Tom (see cuts...
...after Sportsman Williams' catch, another blue marlin, a monster, was feeling warm enough to strike at a fresh squid trolled by Sportsman Julian Carr Stanley, fishing with Captain Herman Jacobsen on the launch Mongoose. The fish ripped the line from its outrigger clip on his first rush, then took the hook solidly when...
...tackle was adequate (14-0 reel, 36-thread line) but the Mongoose's cockpit afforded him no proper foot rest to fight so big a fish. His friend, William Hale Harkness, had to spell him on the rod. Evening was at hand before they had their monster subdued-and then it sounded (dived deep). They began the laborious job of "pumping" the dying fish to the top, when violent thrashing on their line and clouds of blood deep in the water told them that something else was after their fish-sharks! By the time they raised the marlin...
...came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting his address dramatically, Mr. Barkley pointed at the pitcher and cried: "Has it been tested...
Just back of Britain's monster naval base at Singapore lies the pleasant realm of the wealthy, virile, tiger-hunting Sultan of Johore who, as an Oriental potentate, is entitled to have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed...