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...were dark hints that the New Deal had gagged Boake Carter, whose crusty comments have had a decidedly agin-the-government tang. But General Foods President Colby M. Chester is stanchly anti-New Deal. Last week, when it was announced that Boake Carter would say his last General Foods cheerio August 26, the rumors grew louder. Official reason for failure to renew the contract: The change from Daylight Saving Time would bring the broadcasts to western radios at 4:30 p. m., too early an hour for most listeners, and better time is not available on any nationwide network...
...Cannot tell you how much we appreciated the weekend. I thank you, my wife thanks you, my wife's little daughter thanks you. Cheerio...
...into the White House. Long after luncheon he and President Roosevelt sat talking about NRA. which Mr. Hearst last autumn called "a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties.'' They might also have talked of the Brain Trust, which Hearst papers once called ''infatuates, dogmatists, cheerio pundits." or the cancellation of airmail contracts which Hearst violently opposed. More happily, publisher might have congratulated President on the Stock Exchange Bill, which he warmly favors, or on the silver-buying program which he advocated last September...
...notice that the Mayor of Cambridge pays little attention to the possibility that you are actually sincere in the belief that bally hoo cannot exercise the evils of the depression. He makes no attempt to answer your statements concerning the futility of the whole cheerio business, but with many a sterling platitude he attacks your presumed motives...
...Moody denied having told Capt. Hamer to hold his fire. He proclaimed martial law, sent more militiamen, restored order. He was interviewed on the telephone from 5,000 mi. away by a London Daily Mail reporter who exclaimed: "Well, well! Is this a common occurrence in Texas? . . . thanks and cheerio...