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...Rock-ribbed Republican Jesse Wolcott had little to fear in the way of questioning from his rock-ribbed Republican constituency on Michigan's Thumb. The Thumb's thrifty sugar-beet and dairy farmers sent Jesse Wolcott back to Congress even in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. He knows they are disgusted with the Administration's handling of the home front. His constituents, he learned, take for granted that Franklin Roosevelt will run for a Fourth Term and they will vote against him, no matter how the war is going. In his talks to luncheon clubs and his chats...
Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...
...reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned over a rock and saw "slimy things crawling" under...
When Perry Hayden, Quaker and Tecumseh, Mich., miller, heard a sermon on this text (that life evolves out of death), he wanted to prove it literally. So he planted 360 kernels of high-yielding Bald Rock wheat. Then Quaker Hayden had another idea: he would dramatize the Biblical injunction of tithing (giving a tenth of one's income to God), so he pledged a tenth of his harvest to his meeting...
Harry James and his band rock Winsocki to its foundations-the ballroom scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...