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...National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
...stayed out in the country, the first train that he could catch in the morning did not get him to his office until 8:20. Such was his model life. Aside from his middle-class English hatred of publicity, which led him sometimes to wave a gold-headed cane at photographers, he was not an ominous figure. Some industrial opponents hated him, but as a successful manager of utilities he had the admiration of most businessmen. All that was undone by his bad management as a corporate manipulator which cost investors some $750,000,000. After the debacle came...
Louisiana and Florida grow sugar cane as do Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. But production in Louisiana and Florida is relatively small and the insular possessions of the U. S. have no vote in Congress. Politically speaking, the U. S. sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways...
That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
...Hippodrome seats were cheap (99? top). So was the quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...