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...effect was almost electrical. The conference was, so to speak, stampeded and forthwith, almost as one man, the members rose to cry "aye" to the motion proposing that women of 21 should receive the vote. Irate Tories cursed...
...said, "wants no governmental price-fixing on his products and he courts the minimum of state control of his affairs. (Government control of crop surplus and government price-fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
...even interests as we suppose them te be! . . . As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized. We all know now that we can have too much of a good thing; that without foreign trade the nation's trade, aye, even the nation's life, languishes...
...national capitol, one Robert Wilson, new page boy, rushed through the lobbies, encountered one Harry J. Brown, cried that a roll-call vote was on, Mr. Brown told Page Wilson to rush back and vote for him. Page Wilson, in the Chamber, did so, crying 'Aye' when the clerk staccatoed 'Browne.'* Talley clerks were startled by the treble. It was discovered that Harry Brown, page teaser, is correspondent of the Salt Lake City Tribune...
...Thomas Marshall, fisherman, looked up from nets he was tending in the middle of the English Channel and squinted off over five miles of tossing grey water. Aye, there could be no doubt of it, she was coming down, on a long slant like a tired gull. It was too far off to see a splash, but Thomas Marshall had trawled the English Channel long enough to know a London-to-Paris airliner when he saw one. He did not hesitate. Rather than delay to haul in his nets, he bade his crew hack them free and pointed his smack...