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Meantime the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair announced a similar show. Its main attraction: buxom, brunet Mexican Bombshell Diego Rivera...
...with a buxom armful of gently protesting but finally surrendering cornfed, Walnut Valley gal in your arms, to the slow and formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...
Then came the mild, ever-so-gentle amendments of Mrs. Mary Teresa Norton of Jersey City, N. J., buxom chairlady of the House Labor Committee. Mrs. Norton's amendments, handiwork of New Dealers, were so slight as to be imperceptible. The House jumped on the Norton amendments ravenously. So infectious was the fun that New Dealers and Republicans joined in, soon inflated the Norton bill into a balloony caricature of a law. So many workers were exempt that Representative Frank Hook of Ironwood, Mich, heckled: "You have exempted everybody but the unemployed . . . might as well do that...
Last week a statistical novice, buxom Columnist Dorothy Thompson, told her 7,500,000 readers that the experts were screwloose. Speaking through her mythical breakfast companion The Grouse (grouch), who quarrels with her for being stupid and writes on the tablecloth,*Miss Thompson proved to her own satisfaction that not nine nor ten nor twelve million, but only two million were unemployed...
...long way off, for the case of NLRB was now dumped into the ample lap of handsome Mary Teresa Norton, who comes from Jersey City and Boss Frank Hague, and who looks 20 years less than her age (65). Chairwoman of the 21-man House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill, Smith's chum, combustious Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia laid plans to force the bill...