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...time last night with its gently stirring, inhibition crushing breezes; and its horn blowing auto parades and other clap-trap of small town pre electioneering...
Great Northern Sea Route Administrator Schmidt will lure the little slant-eyed brothers out of their igloos, clap them into modern houses. The Schmidt settlements will have bathrooms with hot & cold running water, bakeries with bread popping in & out of ovens on conveyers, a radio network pouring out music and propaganda, libraries. "It is impossible," said the Professor, "to convince them of the advantages of settling down at fur-trading posts so long as there are no bathhouses...
...Washington AAAttorney Seth Thomas declared sadly that he thought many a processor would be ruined if he instituted a suit and lost because the Government would then clap on tax penalties and bleed him severely. In western Kansas farmers did their part to discourage tax suits by declaring a boycott on a milling company. A group of Texans headed by Clifford Day, who led the farmers' march on Washington last May, went to Washington with expenses paid by AAA and returned home: 1) to stir up farmers to fight the Bankhead Act injunction; 2) to start a farm movement...
...policeman for the securities business. Like any good Irish policeman, he would be kind where kindness was called for, harsh where harshness was needed. As to his Wall Street record, Joe Kennedy would get a lusty laugh out of catching one of his old friends off the reservation, gaily clap him in jail if he possibly could...
...relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long legislator, "is a declaration of war against the United States...