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...Despite their spit & polish, the girls are still girls. The men flock to the Reserves' recreation hall and, when they are not invited, try to crash it. In their barracks, after dark, the girls turn up in ruffly nightgowns, tailored pajamas, housecoats, satin robes and all kinds of footgear, from fancy mules to fleece-lined booties...
Contrary, too, to TIME'S interesting account of the Cosden sale-and-purchase (TIME, April 10), and to reports published locally, Cosden leaped not from the shoes of a Maryland drug clerk but from the more thinly-soled footgear of a small-town newspaper reporter into the shiny boots of an Oklahoma oilaire. So said Cosden to friendly Big Springers who dined him the evening after the sale in their oil-built 15 story Settles hotel...
President Hoover last week revealed himself as an undaunted top-notch tariff Republican to the end. To a world of depreciated currencies, he made object lessons of sneakers from Japan, rubbers from Czechoslovakia. Alarmed at growing imports of such footgear, the U. S. Tariff Commission found that they were being produced abroad in terms of cheap money at less than the cost of raw materials to U. S. manufacturers in gold dollars. In 1930 Japan exported to the U. S. 1,074,096 pairs of rubber-soled shoes, in 1932, 2,467,646 pairs. Ineffective appeared U. S. tariff rates...
...often proved economically unsound. Though it is great fun to make the wagers, paying them is not so pleasant. And today it seems to be on the cards for Princeton to mop up the Bowl with the Elis. If this eventuality occurs, the young Forecasts will go without footgear this winter and I myself will have to cut down to two cigars...
Even were all these charges true, it might still be argued that Der Unbekannte Diktator deserves well of Czechs and Slovaks. His is the kinetic genius which has so prodigiously expanded young Czechoslovakia's shoe industry that today she exports more footgear than old, easy-going Britain or revamped, laborious Germany...