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This year Ellison ("Tarzan") Brown, 24-year-old Narragansett Indian from Westerly, R. I., did not follow his usual custom. He hung back, let Leslie Pawson, the favorite, go out in front. At Natick the Rhode Island Redskin (whose Indian name, Attuck-Quock-Wussete, means Deer-foot) found himself leading the pack, along with Walter Young, 1937 winner. Together they loped along for twelve miles...
Liveliest opposition to the dumping plan came last week from the Senate Cotton bloc. South Carolina's Purge-proof Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had another solution : to give farmers parity payments instead of loans after the present crop season, release the Government's holdings in 1940. And Alabama's John Bankhead had still another: let farmers buy back their hocked cotton for 3? a pound, sell it at a quick profit, promise to reduce their acreage correspondingly...
Such was the substance of a warning issued by Assistant Surgeon General Clifford Ellison Waller and his public health colleagues to all U. S. shavers last week. Reason: a case of deadly anthrax in North Dakota last fortnight was traced to a lot of infected Japanese shaving brushes...
Divorced. Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross, 66, inventor of the Ross rifle and one of the largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords...
...Farmers. South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed'') Smith took a long time to make up his mind whether he was proud or ashamed of the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...