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...week, with his ace publicity man Ben Allen, he was in St. Louis to discourse to the John Marshall Republican Club on "The New Deal Further Explored, Including Relief." Listening to this third Hoover barrage, wiseacres credited the fertile wit of onetime Newshawk Allen with the following: "When I comb over these [Relief] accounts of the New Deal my sympathy arises for the humble decimal point. His is a pathetic and hectic life, wandering around among regimented ciphers trying to find some of the old places he used to know...
...English friend who strolled in when he was pulling on his quite modest underpants, His Highness said, "I noticed yesterday that it took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy...
...side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods are wet, the cotton sticks to them and winds itself around them. The adhering cotton is then mechanically stripped from the rods and passed into a hopper by suction. That is all. Planters who watched the Rust machine in action last season in Arkansas...
Labor Speaks TALK UNITED STATES!-Robert Whit-comb-Smith & Haas...
...days later Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced a fact-finding inquiry to settle once & for all the question of what was holding up credit expansion. Dr. Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago was picked to head a staff of 50 fiscal experts drawn from Midwestern universities to comb the Chicago Federal Reserve district, considered typical of the whole country...