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...pair of grand juries had succeeded in thoroughly besmirching the pretty picture of tall corn, prize hogs, rollicking State fairs and honest farmers which Iowa presents to the world. The juries' findings pointed to such corruption in high offices as to put the Democratic Administration of Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring in definite political danger in a State normally topheavy with Republicans...
...Moines, visiting Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring with their father, Curtis Bean Dall, Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt ("Buzzie") Dall asked their host to help them do a trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...
...course of a debate in the House of Commons on herring, Mr. Hales whipped a dead herring out of a bag and waved it at his opponents. The author of a book called Harold's Adventures, Harold Hales likes to tell his friends that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...
Chimed in the Rt. Rev. Richard Godfrey Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referring to Britain's wholesale destruction of millions of herring to raise prices: "Food under our system has been flung back into the sea. I say that is virtually a sacrilege, because it is flinging God's gifts back into His face. There must come a change in the system!" However, the Rt. Rev. James Geoffrey Gordon, Bishop Suffragan of Jarrow, felt that such talk "would seriously impair the Church's credit...
...Herring, the first lecturer in the series, presented the problem of clarifying and assisting public interest in governmental problems. Dr. Fainsed dealt with the Communist International and its development during the Russian Revolution, while Wolfgang H. Kraus discussed problems of the new German state...