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...wheat and cotton to Germany on credit. Germany rejected the original U. S. offer fortnight ago, countered with an offer of her own last week to buy 600,000 bales of cotton, later offered to buy 600,000 tons of wheat. In Washington the Federal Farm Board had an all-day meeting and in turn rejected the German cotton offer as too low. Sensible German businessmen were not surprised...
...Jersey-" On the stage of Krueger's Auditorium in Newark stood Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico. Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate. It was 9 o'clock of a rainy evening. Mr. Morrow's blue-grey suit looked mussed and wrinkled after an all-day auto tour among Jersey voters. In his hand he held a manuscript, his first campaign speech, from which he was about to read. No hard-boiled political stumpster, he seemed shy and nervous before the 2,000 clerks, farmers, Negroes, laborers, socialites - Republican voters all - who packed the hall...
...necessary to get the facts. With the cooperation of retail stores of every class and location in the "loop" an all-day census of shoppers was made. Nearly 100,000 persons were interviewed. Analysis of the result revealed that parked cars contributed not 25 per cent, of the number of shoppers, but 1.5 per cent...
Another somewhat startling aspect of Boston's traffic problem was discovered by an all-day origin and destination survey which showed that approximately thirty per cent of the traffic in the downtown district was mis-routed. The results seemed to indicate that even Bostonians were unfamiliar with the most direct routes from one point to another in their own city, and either through habit or lack of better knowledge were adding to the congestion of already heavily over-burdened traffic ways, when simpler, more direct, and often less congested routes were open to them
...Catholics and very good actors. As for myself, if I try to be a good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...