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...again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...
...sold $2,453,000,000 worth of goods, 8% more than the year before. From foreigners the U. S. bought goods worth $2,419,000,000, an increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more in freight and shipping charges than it took in, the net of remittances was against the U. S. by $138,000,000, and U. S. tourists spent $373,000,000 more abroad...
Item: after a cruel compromise has crushed an automobile workmen's union, a union lieutenant (Grover Burgess), fired, blacklisted and evicted from his home, is so demoralized that he takes to drinking, abusing his baby, patronizing 25? brothels...
...GROVER CLEVELAND"* Hardly had the words left the Clerk's mouth when Senator Bailey of North Carolina cried: "Mr. President, a sufficient answer to the message from former President Cleveland is the statement that he was President in horse-&-buggy days...
ELLIOT NUGENT was a fairly serious Ohio State University during the days Great War, but he was also a quarter miler, cut in on studying. James Grover Thurber, was a complete grind opposed to judging by the hours he spent in the library State and by the long hair he always wore before his eyes. Nugent and Thurber met to their mutual benefit. James went out more frequently; Elliot came indoors to begin in the Ohio State...