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...visitor would hardly have guessed that it was the tenth annual convention of the National Cotton Council of America. In the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel last week, a huge banner carried the legend: "Why Is Margarine Singled Out for Discrimination? No Other Product Is." And much of the talk among the 800 cotton men was of margarine. The reason: margarine, made chiefly of cottonseed oil, is worth $80 million a year to cotton planters. Planters thought that they could easily sell twice as much cottonseed oil if only Congress would repeal the high tax, lobbied through by dairy farmers...
...page in most of the Hearst papers. Cried its caption, in a single horrified breath: "Throughout the nation, this scene is being reenacted on a scale increasing at a rate that has brought a rising tide of demand for a law to end promiscuous drinking by women." Brayed a banner headline: AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-THE FEMALE BARFLY. As if to show the world-and his editors-that there was life in the old boy yet, aged (84), ailing William Randolph Hearst was bending his elbows in another campaign...
...Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...West Coast with $22.16 left. By the time he had promoted a free ride into the Rose Bowl as one of the chauffeurs for the Michigan team, he was almost as big a celebrity back home as Michigan's Bob Chappuis (see SPORT). An eight-column, Page One banner headline in the Times gagged: 89,999 PAYING FANS AND BRESLIN TO SEE ROSE BOWL GAME. At week's end, Breslin and Michigan were both winners. Editor MacLellan, who had had his money's worth, sent Hitchhiker Breslin the money to come home in style, aboard the Super...
...purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted a "day" to him. Latvian churches prized his ikons. His paintings hung in 25 countries. League of Nations committees solemnly discussed his "Banner of Peace" (a red circle enclosing three red spheres on a field of white), which would protect religious and cultural buildings from attack in future wars...