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About the land last week was circulating an emblem for citizens who do not become "NRA Members-We Do Our Part." It was a black buzzard labelled "Non-member - We don't". Its designer was Adam Cooper Warfel, 42, a mechanical engineer employed in St. Louis by Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. who draws cartoons and posters for fun.* Engineer Warfel mailed his emblem to Washington and forgot about it. Fortnight ago salt-tongued Recovery Administrator Johnson went to St. Louis, made an NRA speech in which he said...
...Chiseling' may be a slang word but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louis there came to my desk the other day a drawing of a turkey buzzard-a sickly opposite of the blue hawk. In his loathsome talons is a chisel. . . . Nothing more apt has come to this administration...
Last week the House of Representatives, hunting "that fellow behind the tree." took its orders from a tall, lanky North Carolina farmer, bald as a buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition...
...great spinnaker, made the most startling run of the cruise and reached Marblehead more than an hour ahead of the rest. After a day's racing at Marblehead the weather was calm again; the fleet had itself towed through the canal at the base of Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. There was a fresh breeze for the last day of the cruise but it chopped, changed, and finally almost faded away while Weetamoe led the fleet home to Newport...
...sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic than his mother, he owned the first motor car in the State, permitted the use of his railroad for scenes in early cinemas. (Now he lives on Buzzard's Bay, near New Bedford, Mass., in a high stone house enhanced by a private radio station and flying field. At his dock lies a fully geared oldtime whaling ship.) Hetty Green became the heroine of jokes, speeches, anecdotes and finally, after she died in 1916, of a play...