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...they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...
Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
What he cannot get out of his delighted memory are the japes,pranks,hearty horseplay and lurching humor that apparently ballasted every ship he ever served...
From President George Houk Mead of Mead Corp. (paper), who learned about politics as chairman of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council came three "conclusions" which would have sounded like heresy or horseplay at NAM's meeting last year: "First-that politics is a highly-developed and honorable profession. . . . Second-that it is the obligation of industrial and business executives, as part of their daily work, to give time and consideration to the government of community, state and nation. . . . Third -that Government representatives . . . are giving untiring, conscientious effort to most difficult tasks...
...first entered Franklin Roosevelt's life in 1929 when he was assigned to act as bodyguard whenever New York's new Governor was in the city. So great a hit did Gus's good nature and love of horseplay make with all the Roosevelts that he soon was attached to Albany, went everywhere with the Governor. In the winter of 1933 when the Roosevelts moved to Washington they got Gus a 60-day leave of absence so that he could technically complete 25 years on the force, retire on a $1,500-a-year pension. These qualifications...