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...Warned he: "It's well enough to talk of a political truce but let me tell you that the kind of truce we intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate which he requested fortnight ago, the House, by a vote of 215-to-22. created a seven-man committee of its own to survey...
...March 13 no candidate obtains a clear majority, the German people must vote again April 10. Such a system produces elaborate political jockeying. Many a candidate is entered for no other reason than to split some other candidate's vote on the first or second round...
...That is made possible by three factors, the bootlegging druggist, the bootlegging doctor and the bootlegger. The druggist buys it at about $40 a case. One doctor or several doctors furnish the prescriptions at $3 apiece or a total of $72. That makes $112. The bootlegger and the druggist split the rest...
...feature the murder-story as a testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa for divine reasons, and the man who now realizes that he murdered her only because of jealous love, make up a split personality that splits wider every minute...
...huddled around a spikelike amplifier, knees quivering, sounding like a trumpet, a pair of saxophones and a tuba. The actual concert, save as it benefited unemployed musicians, was unimportant. But when bald, egg-shaped Ferde Grofe came sheepishly on the platform, it was formal evidence of the Whiteman-Grofe split. There is no bad blood between them but chunky Ferde Grofe was tired of squeezing behind the scenes...