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Died. Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, 48, tiny, roistering gambler, promoter, boxing-stable manager who made millions selling illicit liquor during Prohibition years, lost everything after Repeal, ended by running a soda-pop juke joint in West Philadelphia; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Philadelphia...
Professor Hankins reminded his audience of President Roosevelt's pre-election promises not to send any American troops abroad. "No sooner was the election over than American people began to receive barrage after barrage of very subtle propaganda," he said, reciting the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the destroyer deal, and the Lease-Lend Bill as steps towards...
...pair of trees. By seniority, North Carolina's bumptious isolationist, "Roaring Robert" Reynolds, is entitled to become chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Elegant Mr. Reynolds is known to the public as a legislator who fought to delay conscription, to kill the Lend-Lease Bill, and against repeal of the arms embargo...
Died. G. Selmer Fougner, 56, U.S. gourmet, conductor, since Repeal, of the New York Sun column "Along the Wine Trail''; of a heart attack; in Washington. In devotion to his exquisite art, Columnist Fougner wrote several books on vinticulture and good living, founded no less than 14 epicurean societies, notably the famed "Les Amis d'Escoffier...
...Freer competition should be guaranteed by 1) elimination of interstate trade barriers; 2) repeal of the Miller-Tydings Act (which gives Federal blessing to State minimum-price laws); 3) elimination of basing-point price systems. The price system for soft coal set up by the Guffey Act was found to contain the "germs" of Fascism. (Congress renewed it for two years last week...