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...talk?that will be up to the new Chairman." As for illness: "I am feeling fine. I've been sick only twice?once in 1885 and once in 1915. Since ten I haven't missed a meal. Every year two or three doctors examine me and find nothing wrong...
...building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income tax reports of corporations. Another resolution directed that the bill be returned to Committee to strike out all tariff changes except those on agricultural products...
...room. One Eddie Quillan uses trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil is in the cast. She does fairly well, but the old college material is so stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog...
...girls go wrong, and boys too, a Chicago Salvation Army officer surmised last week. He, Commissioner John McMillan, found by observation that three out of five women and every other man whom the Army has helped suffered from malnutrition when young. Their parents had not prevented them from guzzling, or had not given them enough to eat. or were ignorant of the essentials of a balanced diet. Opined the Commissioner: good food will make good morals...
...Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped its suit. President Macrae, however, reiterated his disapproval of such clubs, said his company would continue to submit no books to them...