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President Hoover was reluctant to accept their advice and change his tactics. He hates campaigning and crowds. Besides, he thinks it would be undignified to get out and hump himself for office like any ordinary politician. Deaf to suggestions for an extended campaign the President finally consented to make three October speeches ,two in the Midwest. one in the East. Beyond that he would not go, even for another four years in the White House...
Such championship of mere pleasure for its own sake would have cost any Communist his treasured Party membership last spring. But Josef Stalin, shrewdest of shrewd Dictators, has sensed that millions of Russians are sick of his laborious Five-Year-Plan, deaf to exhortations and are increasingly hungry. Let them laugh then and be cheered...
...withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected to a charge...
...Author. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born, raised and resident in Richmond, Va., hotbed of Southern tradition, decided she would not be a romantic, sentimental Southern belle-lettriste. She announced: ''What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...