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...schools, Stephens' Institute last week held the first national conference on consumer education. To it went some 600 teachers, admen, editors and merchants. The conference was not devoted entirely to cheering. Said Rockefeller Foundation's Stacy May: "In the world of politics, the consumer is a blind beggar of gigantic stature, who stands on the corner of Paradox Street and Pressure Group Lane with little to sell but his woe. Potentially he would seem to be immense. Actually, he is all but completely impotent...
Mims was "particularly encouraged" by the widespread political interest shown in the last election by "every Tom, Dick, and Harry . . . rich man, poor man, beggar...
...himself as the "Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency," said to reporters: "If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
From the home of a beggar to the palace of a king...
Died. Osgood Perkins, 45, suave stage and screen actor (Beggar on Horseback, The Front Page, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ceiling Zero, Point Valaine, etc.); of a heart attack after the opening performance of Rachel Crothers' Susan and God, in Washington...