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...Dixie Highway and the National Road, two chalklines drawn across the smooth slate of Ohio, meet ten miles north of Dayton at a village called Vandalia. At Vandalia are the $100,000 grounds of the Amateur* Trapshooting Association of America, where, late every August, with eleven freight carloads of clay targets (made of sand and plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders...
With his wife and comely daughter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed airship master, was jaunting through Germany in his shiny new Maybach-Zeppelin touring car, long, low, slate-blue with dark blue upholstery, glittering nickel. Gawpers along the way noted that he drove clumsily. Near Kempten he tried to pass another car, smacked into a tree, knocked it down, wrecked his car. Dr. Eckener & family were thrown clear, not badly hurt...
Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer: "So convinced are we that only by radical measures . . . can . . . the wheels of credit . . . be . . . induced once more to revolve freely, that we should be prepared to take our share in a general wiping of the slate, provided all the other governments would do the same...
...Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate of predominantly Radical-Socialist tabbies...
...Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates, actively campaigned while Publisher Hearst and Funnyman Rogers boomed...