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...York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political bed with [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland we be, gin to wonder about Mr. Wilkins...
...year-old reporter named Lucius Beebe from the now defunct Boston Telegram came to interview the 20-year-old author, and the two were soon painting the town mauve. "We lived on gin and Swinburne," recalls Beebe. "Jim had delusions of grandeur when it came to money. When he called on a girl, he would put on a morning coat and striped pants, hire a car and get a million orchids - all of it charged and seldom paid...
Leasing 4,500 acres of farm land in Arizona's Maricopa County, Harris trekked his work crews, tractors, and cotton gin 125 dusty miles to the farm and planted it to cotton. This fall, when he harvests his crop, he will have to pay a penalty of 18½? per Ib. for growing cotton without an allotment. But even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris...
...about ten hours members of the Class of 1932 mixed memory and desire with gin and Schweppes and tossed them down, while sitting on the shaded lawns of one of the North Shore's most distinguished country clubs...
Devotion Lotion. In Cincinnati, William Stokes, 57, Bishop of the Spiritual Church of God, explained to police that the blackjack" he was carrying was for "protection of myself and my congregation," and the bottle of gin, for "sacrificial purposes...