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...Franklin Roosevelt to Publisher-Editor Harry Newman in the first issue of Senator, a new magazine of Capital chitchat out last week. Modeled partly after the New Yorker, partly after Judge (which Publisher Newman also runs), Senator, in its first appearance, rambled like the garrulous old Senatorial barfly in plug hat and string tie that Norman Rockwell painted for its cover...
Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
...arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania just in time to change from tweeds to tails and go to the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria. There he delivered a long, rambling, formless speech on Democracy and the Modern World which contained many a plug for Britain, many a warily delivered hint that the U. S. and Britain were pretty much in the same boat...
...some of the mine patches of northeastern Pennsylvania June 21, 1877 is still remembered as Black Thursday. That was the day the Molly Maguires-ten of them-were hanged. Far from sissies, the Molly Maguires were a gang of Irish plug-uglies who for two decades had terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman...
Calling signals is Al Silverberg, and his alternate, Don McSweeney. Silverberg stands out as a blocker, while McSweeney due to his speed carries the ball a good deal when he is in. Spark plug of the team, with guard Dave Grey, is Earl Foster, fullback, who leads the House league in scoring with six touchdowns...