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...friend General MacArthur, whom McCormick had known well in World War I, gave him the most lavish reception ever accorded an unofficial visitor. General MacArthur lent him his private Cadillac, dined with him twice. McCormick assured U.S. newsmen that they had avoided politics. He brushed off talk of the MacArthur-for-President drive and repeated his endorsement of Senator Taft...
...Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
...same week La Terre said: "We are happy to note an appreciable increase in the price of milk, which rises from 9.75 to 15 francs a liter, and of butter, which is increased by 60%. Thus the authorities seem to have lent an ear to the claims we advanced on behalf of French farmers. . . . Let us hope that the new price level will become generalized for all farm products...
...Queens, N.Y., the Archduke Franz Josef, 42-year-old grandnephew of Austria's late Emperor, paid a $25 fine in traffic court (for driving with bright lights in a dull-light zone)-after a bystander kindly lent...
Fame. As a promotion stunt, Porters, a furniture store in Racine, Wis., has lent umbrellas to some 7,000 shoppers marooned by rain. Gratefully, all but three of the shoppers have returned the umbrellas. Porters' reward: A pat on the back from the American Education Press's My Weekly Reader, which cited this as an example of the inherent honesty of the public...