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...exploit Mae West's film Go West, Young Man, eight U. S. newspapers conducted popularity contests to send eight "eligible bachelors" to Hollywood for eight days. Each bachelor was promised an evening with Miss West. Iowa's LeRoy Kling, 28-year-old Cedar Rapids seed & coal dealer, stuttered on arrival: "For 30? I'd turn around and go back home. I wouldn't feel this way if I knew what to expect. . . . Why, I only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland...
...Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem...
...look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce) anti-moth products which do not live up to their claims. Last month the Food & Drug Administration had fines imposed on a Chicago chemical company for shipping...
...effected at all. All Coordinator Eastman could do was to offer suggestions, which usually tended in the direction of eventual Government management of U. S. railroads. One of Mr. Eastman's favorite proposals is the consolidation of railway terminals in many cities for economy and improved service. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, he wants to route all six railroads serving the city into one terminal, causing the abandonment of two passenger stations, four freight depots. To compensate terminal employes who would lose their jobs, he suggested that the railroads pay them a dismissal fee, varying with length...
Public Service by a newspaper was best exemplified, the judges thought, by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, which went out of its own bailiwick to expose political corruption in Sioux City & environs. Crusading Editor Verne Marshall prodded the legislature and the Woodbury County (Sioux City) grand jury into investigating connivance between law-breakers and officials (TIME, Sept. 30). Result was the conviction of the chairman of the State Liquor Commission for illegally disposing of State liquor seals, suspension of Sioux City's mayor and the resignations under fire of the Woodbury County attorney and public safety commissioner. As higher...