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...total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by Chairman Reid of the Flood-Control Committee, calling for Federal payment of the entire program instead of only 80% as urged by the administration...
Illuminating as these figures may be to some people, it is impossible that they will cause any stir in the world of levity, except as new grist for the laugh mill. Even the awe-inspiring news that tuberculosis takes a large roll of gentlemen graduated from college funny papers will not act as a sedative. Caps will continue to hob and bills to iiugle in the face of overwhelming numbers. After all, is the conforming reflection, these statistics prove exactly what most statistics prove...
...Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
...ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee fade out of the picture anyhow. Like Subway Sadie, Tin Gods overlooks a gold mine to find only enough grist to keep the box office grinding...
...does not lose his head in the ring, can stand up under punishment. When he fights, his face sometimes gets puckered up. It never gets nasty. The Champion William Harrison Dempsey-what he eats, wears, says, earns, fears, hopes for, and remembers-has supplied the news-mills with endless grist ever since the blazing day he poked Jess Willard in the stomach. He has never been a popular champion. The "slacker" talk helped to make him disliked; it was abetted by many other things, the fact that he married a moving picture star and thereby enrolled himself among the dilettantes...