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...Kansas City, Mo. newspapers, James W. Stobaugh advertised: "TO WILD DRIVERS. I no longer shall make my car jump sideways, backwards, do flip-flop curves, etc. to get out of the way. If you see Missouri 3-167 coming down the street just keep in your proper place and you will have no broken headlights, smashed fenders or broken windows. My nerves are worn to a frazzle...
...SeattIe's street of Radical orators, flop houses, bawdy houses, named long ago when it was frequented by rough loggers from the skid-roads of the timberlands...
Priest Coughlin's much-heralded first appearance, in Detroit last month, was generally accounted a near-flop (TIME, May 6). Prepared for an overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
...backers asked 300 colleges to take over the best of these pupils and see whether they could weather the college courses. The implication lies that, unprepared for the college board examinations, the pupils may shine as students. Time will fell. They may flop...
...stockmarket greeted Chief Justice Hughes's pronouncements last fortnight with a skyrocketing rally but prices soon relapsed and trading dropped back into its old rut. Bonds, notably Governments, climbed to new records but as a business shot-in-the-arm the gold clause decision was a notable flop-with one exception. The two biggest U. S. steel companies perked up enough to announce for 1935 big programs of expansion and improvement...