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Meanwhile Linda Gaddy Bilbo's husband stayed on the Poplarville pecan plantation while his State went from bad to worse financially. A bull-headed little man of the Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand...
Milan Pribichevich, Valerian Pribichevich, Adam Pribichevich-potent brothers all-all demanded audience at the Royal Palace. Telegrams poured in from members of the Independent ("Pribichevich"; Democratic party. But to all appeals King Alexander remained deaf. He would not, to please the Three Brothers Pribichevich. release from custody last week Brother No. 4: that great Croatian Statesman Svetozar Pribichevich, "one of the founders of Jugoslavia" (founded...
...Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school...
...other delegates knew that Sam McKelvie and fellow Farm Boarders have made this same appeal up and down the U. S. wheat belt for two years to U. S. farmers. To carry an appeal to the world when it has already fallen on deaf ears in the U. S. seemed to many delegates twice hypocritical. That Canada is not the "trusty vassal" of the U. S. appeared when Canada's George Howard Ferguson, High Commissioner of the Dominion in London and Chairman of the Wheat Conference last week, said cuttingly of the U. S. Chief Delegate's speech...
...daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living (i.e., holds appointive power over the position) watches the game. Tonight he will drink twelve whiskey & sodas with the vicar, perhaps invite him to Sunday dinner...