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Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped...
...meter sloops and a Larchmont O boat have been entered in Class A, two cutters, a schooner, and a sloop making up Class B, and two yawls and a sloop forming the last class. Prizes are to be given for class winners and division winners, the classes being split into racing and cruising categories...
...soon as another car could be seized, Bailey, Underhill, the warden, two captured guards and four convicts split away from the rest, a group of five who went their way in the second car. Both groups headed south for the Oklahoma badlands...
This last was as definite as the Chancellor would be on the question that all Britain knew had split the Cabinet wide open: to pay or not to pay the installment of $75,950,000 due the U. S. three days after the W. E. C. opens. Stanley Baldwin was leading one faction, for immediate payment. Neville Chamberlain was leading the faction for default, secure in the knowledge that President Roosevelt's suspension of the gold clause in U. S. bonds had shocked thousands of Britons...