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Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...
Governor Curlcy's determination to force a referendum upon the Judges Retirement Plan has raised such an unsavoury smell around greater Boston that the odor of his rotten egg has seeped up Beacon Hill into the State House and irritated the gubernatorial nostrils. Being a man accustomed to a parasitic circle of "Yes" men, this unusual opposition has annoyed him considerably. In fact the Governor has become so aroused that he has started libel proceedings against a Boston Newspaper, alleging that marked copies of newspapers distributed several days ago had articles in them stating that he had ignored the Constitution...
Speaking next day at the new aviation school in suburban Gatow, General Göring made a bad break by referring to Adolf Hitler as "Supreme Wrar Lord." Since such a title still has a sinister, Kaiserish smell in international noses, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels promptly scotched...
...Britain's National Birth Control Association, president of the Voluntary Sterilization Society, president of the Council for the Disposition of the Dead, vice president of the Cremation Society. He is chairman of the Anti-Noise League and, with George Bernard Shaw and Herbert George Wells, belongs to the smell Society which seeks to suppress London's stinks. He dislikes health faddists, Nazis and cranks who denounce beer and white bread...
...excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell." After living in France, Austria, Germany and Russia the children started off for their first trip to the U. S. They stopped in London on the way were taken to Madame Tussaud's. "In the Chamber of Horrors we saw bloody figures and figures of ladies and gentlemen who .had killed people...