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...happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared so many years ... in the pursuit of Liberal ideals...
...Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduates in the Classics was presented to Francis J. Di Mento '48 of Brighton for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Lard Charnwood's "Abraham Lincoln...
...likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
Angry Twitch. Harold Stassen had come to the hearing primed with fresh charges. While Pauley glowered at him across the witness table, Stassen declared that Pauley had not liquidated his holdings after he became an Army assistant last September. Instead, Pauley had bought large amounts of lard and cottonseed oil, taken a $56,360 profit after the Government announced large purchases for shipment abroad. Previous deals in wheat, oats and hides followed the same "pattern...
...Secretary Kenneth Royall had agreed that he would have nothing to do with the Army's procurement. He had also sold out 90% of his holdings-300,000 bushels of oats, 200,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil, 500,000 pounds of lard, more than 1,700,000 pounds of hides. On paper, selling out had cost him about $100,000 in profits. Still, he had to admit that he had "done pretty well . . . over all, I made a profit...