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...pressure area, fitful with Spring, drifted eastward across the land last week, suddenly squatted over northern Indiana. Down to earth raced many winds, flapping from their wings an enormous flutter of feathery snow. Forty-four hours later when the low pressure area was ready to move on again, the Midwest was blanketed beneath one of its worst snowfalls in recorded weather history...
...North Carolina, on whose fine ribbons of concrete walking is easy for travelers going South for the Winter, North for the Summer. Unlike the walkers of Germany who are out for the sport of pedestrianism and who want no rides, unlike the troops of unemployed in England who move from town to town on foot to get a dole and who shun on automobile, the U. S. hitch-hiker is going places as fast as possible...
Democratic delight at having put Claudius Hart Huston. Chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Hoover's friend, into a bad hole by exposing his stock trading on lobby funds, began to diminish last week (TIME. March 31). The reason: Republicans were actively on the move to put John Jacob Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in almost the same hole. If both party leaders were thus beclouded, the political score would be evened...
...varying times it is sentimental, heavily, socially satirical, slapstick. But despite the romances and lampoons and picturesqueness, it is the reliable spirit of low comedy which prevails. There is a comical, hungry goat, and there is Mr. Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without veering into some of the precarious makeshift furniture, thereby causing its collaspse. Whenever the tempo lags or the substance thins, some such violent commotion as Mr. Carrington's table-toppling is almost bound to provoke a horselaugh...
...significance of the Standard move lies in the complete separation of the patent process from Standard of New Jersey and the willingness of the new company to make the process available to any corporation desiring it. The greater the number of companies subscribing for stock in the Patent Company, the greater the Standard royalties and the greater the conservation of petroleum. Furthermore Standard, contemplating not a patent pool but a patent ocean in which all (with the qualification noted above) may freely navigate, has averted the likelihood of protest from independents or from the Government...