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...gave it to local charity THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE ADVERTISEMENT wherein he gave his opinion (?) of Lucky Strikes. I don't remember the exact organization he favored, but it was either a crippled children's home or an orphanage in eastern North Dakota...
...Maritime Commission (TIME, March 22), from provisions of the Merchant Marine act of 1936 which would make him ineligible to serve on the Commission because he had a "substantial" financial interest in a shipping line within the three years preceding his appointment. Declared sarcastic Senator Frazier, North Dakota Republican, after reading a list of Appointee Kennedy's achievements from Who's Who: "In addition to all these very eminent and obvious qualifications, Mr. Kennedy also contributed $50,000 to the Democratic Campaign Fund in 1932. If that doesn't qualify a man for a job like this...
...scrupulously suppressed. . .. Judges are moralists and good fellows. They like to see people get a square deal. For example, any railroad company which has not had its tax assessment lowered since the Depression . . . may have its tax bill cut down by this court [Great Northern Ry. v. North Dakota]. This is the type of legislative tyranny which is clearly a violation of due process. . . . We shall give back any money exacted as taxes . . . for the benefit of farmers . . . but we shall have nothing to say if the money is for no one in particular [Hoosac Mills (AAA) case...
...best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
...Pleased was the President to hear that New Mexico had ratified the Child Labor Amendment, 27th State to do so. Displeased was he to hear that the Amendment had been defeated in the South Dakota Legislature...