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...President said he was going to reduce 7 Ib...
Raising its ugly head last week, avarice threw a bad scare into the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The South reported to Washington that cotton planters, hungrily watching their product go to 10? per Ib. for the first time in two years, had agreed to destroy less than 6,000,000 acres of their current crop under the Domestic Allotment Plan. The Administration wanted 10,000,000 acres (estimated at 25% of the total yield) plowed under or left unplucked, for which it was prepared to pay "benefits" to be collected from a cotton processing tax as yet officially unannounced...
...tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from 400 Roman Catholic priests, 6,000 laymen with the proposal to make...
...last week went the League of Nations Treaty to limit the manufacture of narcotics throughout the world. Thirty-six nations have agreed to tell a central office in Geneva how much opium they need each year for legitimate medical and scientific work. (The U. S. needs about 150,000 Ib. yearly...
...desserts. But he is not finicky about his food. He eats some of whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once-''by eating less...