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...kissin'est chief executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back country. When he campaigned for office, his "Strawberry Pickers," a hillbilly band, followed him everywhere. He waved what he called a "suds bucket" for contributions and shouted, "You furnish the suds and ah'll do the scrubbing"-i.e., clean up the state. He said he kissed 50,000 women during his campaign...
Zionists here will furnish the settlement with books and scientific reports as well us maintain an exchange of ideas through the mails. The Society is at work filling Miss Shalteal's request for 15 scientific texts including works on agricultural science...
...measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that] may be troublesome...
There was one item of good news with the bad. Canada, which went through World War II without a foreign loan, will get a $300 million loan from the U.S. The Export-Import Bank will furnish it, if private financing is impracticable. But another $300 million must come from the savings in consumers' goods from the U.S. Devaluation of the Canadian dollar-often rumored-was "considered and rejected," said Abbott...
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Last week the aging (84) Lord of San Simeon was out to prove that his hand had not lost its touch. This time it was not Spain but Russia on which Hearst had declared...