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...reply, I beg to state that, if you will furnish this office with a letter of recommendation from the Democratic chairman of your county or Reynolds' manager, I will be more than glad to take your case up with the Works Progress Administration in Watauga County and do everything I can in an effort to help you. This procedure is followed in all instances...
...social experiments are constantly in progress, make frequent news. Last week Dr. Henry Wieghorst Nissen and Meredith P. Crawford ran off motion pictures showing altruism and co-operation among the apes. When one animal had food and another in an adjoining cage had none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with the other, or turn his back, or become so uncomfort able that he would retreat with the food...
...shouted Zioncheck, breaking for the door. Policemen collared him, threw him into the pen. Judge Casey, reappearing, slapped on fines of $25 for speeding, $20 for contempt of court. For two hours Representative Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding and contempt of court...
...Italy spurns the League of Nations as an intermediary. Ethiopia must first beg for peace through the headquarters of Marshal Badoglio in Africa...
Shocked at the thought of French bankers attempting to beg funds from a President Schultz, Edouard Herriot's audience dispersed...