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North Dakota. Last summer popular Republican Governor William Langer was sentenced to prison, ousted from office for forcing Federal relief workers to contribute to his political support (TIME, July 30, et ante). In November the Republicans split with the result that a small-town newspaper editor named Thomas Hilliard Moodie was elected second Democratic Governor in the State's history...
Pontiac, like Oldsmobile last year, has split into two lines, sixes and eights. Both have all G. M. and Fisher Body standard features; both have bulbous radiators and wide winglike fenders; both are designed for the buyer who wants small-car economy with big-car gadgets...
...anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind, his should will split its infinitives forever, and his spirit will be but a dangling participle. Certainly he will never read Mackail...
...They sell pin games to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells them to the operator for $40 or $50. The operator takes a machine around to cafes, smoke shops, arcades, where he installs it with the permission of the owner, known as the "location" man. The operator and location man split 50-50 or 60-40 on the proceeds during the life of a machine. A good machine may last six months. After that it loses its popularity, and the professionals begin to get on to it. The operator carts it away and comes back with another variation...
...with his good friend, Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum in book form. The producers. Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc., asked nothing but the publicity from simultaneous release of book and film. Author Fowler and Co-Author Bess Meredyth were to split 15% of the gross sales...