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Stacked Deck. Hardly had Nominee Landon placed his bet, however, when the Democratic Party stacked the deck against him. On the day he made his announcement in Topeka, agents of the U. S. Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures appeared at Republican State Committee headquarters in Augusta, demanded a list of its campaign contributors. The sole, non-partisan duty of this Senate Committee is to ferret out corruption. Day later one of its Democratic members, Washington's Schwellenbach, telephoned Democratic headquarters with news of some incorrupt but exciting discoveries...
...When the Augusta (Ga.) Masters' Invitation Golf Tournament started last week, excitement revolved around two onetime amateur champions: Bobby Jones, who won all four of the world's major golf championships in 1930; and Lawson Little, who won both the U. S. and British Amateur Championships in 1934 and 1935. The Masters' Tournament is played over a course Jones helped design, at a club he helps promote. For the last two years, newspaper reporters have excused his poor performance by explaining that he took his "duties as a host too seriously." This year Jones indicated that...
...fingers, "Light Horse" Harry Cooper posted a 70, the day's only sub-par score. A 69 for his second round left him five strokes ahead of the field. His third round was a creditable 71, but by this time, tall, willowy Horton Smith, who won the first Augusta Masters' Tournament in 1934, was on his heels, only three strokes behind...
...Driscoll! "Her Day" is sure interesting reading but where would she get a publisher to tell it to the world? . . . What's in a name? Just a matter of a few thousand dollars-depending on what the name happens to be. ... (MRS.) AUGUSTA F. MOSTIN...
...Augusta, the Supreme Court refused to review a Superior Court decision that Bank Night was not a violation of the Maine lottery...