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...cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike company now has the effrontery to tell the American people that inhalation of their weed is free from the harmful effects present in all other cases. Some advertisers seem to feel that they can indeed fool and insult all of the people all of the time...
What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
...Hallowell '34, G. S. Hayes '34, H. S. Howe '34, B. L. Huntington '34, P. O. Johnson '33, J. J. Mellen, Jr. '33, C. G. Mixter, Jr. '34, C. C. Pell '33, B. S. Rogers '33, Robert Schafer '34, L. L. Thurber '34, R. H. Weed '34, F. C. Welch '33, J. B. White '34, Leslie Williams...
...infallible. A client named Levy was sent dozens of clippings about a tax levy. The Country Gentleman received various references to country gentlemen. An olive growers' association got clippings about the death of Film Actress Olive Thomas. A man who wanted all items on batteries had to weed through stories about arrests for assault and battery. Matters improved after the girls were paid a straight wage instead of piece work...
...Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm or a weed, but in this, the third year of the Depression, the International Flower Show took on a new seriousness...