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...Nope, butter wait until Sunday...
...Commercially they are much more like Jack Sprat and his twin brother Bill: in general, they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might take a little lumber and some liquor." Even on Canada's one big export to the U. S., newsprint and wood pulp, there could be no concession because that already comes in duty-free. In return for lumber...
...largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter was a solid phalanx of Republican jobholders. Forced to hang together or risk losing their bread & butter, Republican ward leaders somehow patched up the quarrels which had kept them wrangling since the death of Boss William Scott Vare. Boss Yare would have been glad to know that his successors managed to win by 47,000 votes, after an expenditure of about $600,000 which was only two hundred...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...
...climax of the book is the scene of the crossing of the Adda, when the French troops, made heroic by two months of victory, audaciously rushed a bridge under direct fire. Thereafter Napoleon's progress had about as much dramatic conflict as the passage of a knife through butter. During the earlier battles in the vicinity of Montelegino he had perfected his tactics, staking everything on a swift and varied attack, compensating for the numerical weakness of his troops by rapid concentrations and fast marches, counting heavily on the timidity of enemy generals for the success of his plans...