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South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...
...University of Pennsylvania batsmen are led by three football stars of last fall. Batting clean-up and holding down first base will be Harlan Gustafson, the 6 foot, 3 inch, 195 pound end and captain of the football team. Frank Reagan will catch, and Bill Koepsell will play second...
...Harlan, Ky., because St. Mark says "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ..." members of the Little Pine Mountain Church of God were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about...
...which came Warren G. Harding), will invite in Pennsylvania's Oilman Joe Pew, who also bosses Delaware's Du Pont Republicans. By maneuvering Mr. Pew, the liberals hope then to bring forth a really strong GOP 1940 ticket: i.e., Supreme Court Justices Owen Roberts or Harlan Stone to head it; perhaps Oregon's McNary or New York's Dewey as No. 2. Their most audacious dream: for President, McNary; for Vice President, LaGuardia-a ticket they guarantee would convince: 1) Franklin Roosevelt that he is too tired to run again; 2) the U. S. that...
...sunspots spray out their particle beams unevenly. The earth may therefore suffer severely from relatively small sunspots if it happens to be in a dense region of the particle beam. Moreover, as the spot cycle wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time its axis is about perpendicular to the sun. Thus the bombardment...