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...funniest parts of The Politician are consequently the quotations from the politicians themselves: A speech on the protective tariff, delivered by onetime (1925-31) Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, in which the tariff is pictured as touching hillsides, causing the waters of commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement...
Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
...luscious dog dinner - fresh beef of lamb, cleaned of fat & gristle, cubed for bolting, soaked in a broth of vegetable vitamin juices, garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction of being both a Triangle Club chorus girl and a varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college he went into insurance brokerage in Philadelphia, settled in Ithan on the Main...
...need more food oftener, are served daily by the "Puppy Special." The new plant at Oakmont has been made ultra-sanitary, equipped with cutting, cooking, packing, snipping and reception rooms, an office for a government meat inspector. It will send complete menus (except skimmed milk) to all branches. Caterer Goff, whose New York and Boston representatives are both in the Social Register, values his business...
CIRCUIT COURT 1-Air. Justice Joseph W. Cox presiding; R. E. Lee Goff, clerk. No. 79326. Frank E. Bonner vs. Washington Times Co.; trial resumed and cause given to jury; verdict for plaintiff for $45,000. Attys., John W. Guider, Edmund L. Jones, Frank J. Hogan-William E. Leahy, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman...