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...country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that isn't the whole truth-the whole expose of the whole business...
...helpful engineer in the Department had been fired. Hence Governor Talmadge was expected to increase and improve his staff of engineers. It so happens, however, that the Governor likes to boast of his economies in his highway department. He cut its overhead by $1,000,000 and got rid of a lot of engineers. Saving State money is a hobby of his. Georgia had only $7,500,000 of debt when he took office in 1933 ; now it has less than $4,500,000. He has steadfastly refused to borrow money to match Federal appropriations for relief, has done...
...strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been a general policy not to give working permits to foreign cabaret artists. Heretofore, we have been making an exception in these two cases." "Before these American girls came over...
...Haggard and Greenberg washed their mouths with soap & water but could not get rid of the smell. They rinsed their mouths with 30% solution of alcohol in water, with no better results. Then "by washing the teeth and tongue and rinsing the mouth with a solution of chloramine" they "immediately and completely rid" themselves of the odors. Last week they advised: "It is probable that many cases of foul breath from other causes would be amenable to the same treatment...
...great dream, the dream of all Cossacks, is destruction of Communism. It is as foreign to us as poverty is to Americans and we shall get rid of it just as you will...