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...little black Father's well-heeled heavens an altercation had begun to sputter like a fish fry. What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
...that the Townsend plan and Ham & Eggs are entirely feasible if financed by the Lambert Plan...
...last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days...
...This week will end registration of Britons for ration cards which will entitle them to buy bacon, butter, ham, sugar when the rationing comes. The Ministry of Food experimented meanwhile with bacon made from mutton, which the London Daily Express quickly labeled "macon." Minister of Food "Shakes" Morrison was pictured devouring a plateful and saying: "It tastes a lot better than it looks...
...words per minute on the Morse key, know every detail of the construction of his apparatus, and besides that be absolutely up-to-date on the latest radio legislation. There are many rules that have been established for the control of the various short wave bands and unless a "ham" is careful he runs a good chance of losing his permit to operate...