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More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
...headlines for weeks and needed fresh publicity to re-establish his nuisance value with the Administration. If his lone filibuster against NRA should somehow succeed-and perhaps other Senators who hated the President as much as he did would come to his aid-he could stick a Blue Eagle feather in his hat and call it macaroni or a great personal victory over the New Deal. Besides, throngs of visiting Shriners in the galleries made it a fine afternoon for speechmaking. So, making a parliamentary motion to get the floor...
...Ardently does Italy need more colonies, feels bitterly that she was diddled out of her due share of the loot by the Treaty of Versailles. Abyssinia is a nut that other imperialistic countries have tried often to crack. Should Italy succeed, it would be a great feather in the Fascist...
Signing. Mr. Garvan, dipping a pen with a big spotted feather attached into a 15? bottle of ink, signed. The Fordson High School band played "My Country Tis of Thee." Rev. Hedly G. Stacey of Dearborn pronounced a benediction. And the 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with...
...voice say: "This is Louis Howe speaking. I want to talk to you about the works relief resolution." From beneath an oxygen tent in his sick room at the White House, Presidential Secretary Howe talked for ten minutes. Said Administrator Hopkins: "You could have knocked me over with a feather...