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...When Minnesota beat Iowa at football last week Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa lost a bet of one prize swine to Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota. Curtis Dall, ex-son-in-law of the President, a guest of Governor Herring at the game, suggested that the pig should be named "New Deal." When Governor Herring rejected the suggestion, the father of the President's two favorite grandchildren retorted, "Then I think you ought to grease it a little with cold cream to make it a smoother proposition...
...Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...
...company vice presidents who are wrong all the time." "Manufacturing is something unnatural," he continued, "something based on the best utilization of material with the least effort in the least time. Research is something natural. Like anything natural, it must be prodigal in time, money and effort. A herring lays a million eggs of which only one may be hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field...
...Herring, "The Democratic Party Machine", Sever...
...error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final confession clears the last red herring...