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...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...
...speak of shaking up a log jam to send bobbing away much of the educational machinery the former president had built. . . . Yes, I have had considerable experience smashing real log jams, as well as the log jams of extravagance and waste...
Letters from indignant citizens, many deeply interested in our educational system, are before me, asking that "Controlled Washington" be answered with the truth about the University and the smashing of the so-called "log jam...
Passengers in New York's humid, jam-packed subways wondered dully at the headlines in their neighbors' newspapers one evening last week: I. R. T. IN RECEIVERSHIP. What would that mean? wondered the subway sardines. Fewer seats than ever? More jerking and lurching, more pushing and bawling by red-faced guards at the stations? Fact was it might mean, eventually, an improvement in the lot of the subway sardine...
...kilometre bicycle race was Attilio Pavesi of Italy. On his handlebars he had a bowl of soup, a bucket of water. In a bib that hung from his shoulders were a dozen bananas, cinnamon buns, jam, cheese sandwiches, spaghetti. Around his neck were two spare tires...