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Thus the sting was drawn from one Republican criticism before it could be drafted into the platform at Cleveland. Lest the extraction of the sting should be missed, the President expounded at his press conference his idea that all big farmers should have their benefit payments restricted...
...Capitol on Saturday to sign last-minute bills, he went there Friday to the Speaker's funeral, traveled to Nashville for the Speaker's interment. At Nashville he was more than three-quarters of the way to Arkansas, where he opens his speaking tour this week, but lest he be accused of mingling obsequies and politics in one trip, he backtracked 724 mi. to Washington. Not wasted, however, were his 38 hours on the train. In his air-cooled car, with two stenographers, he drafted his speeches for this week. At Washington he spent 30 hours cleaning...
...persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer to manage Haynes. Wary lest he fail to receive a full share of their attention, Haynes declined again, decided to go East. If he failed to make a living with his fists, he knew he could depend on a baritone voice so good that Orchestra Leader Fred Waring had offered to pay for his singing lessons...
...Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation. They had struck out Captain Eden's question about Hitler's intentions regarding the refortification of the Rhineland. Most important of all, they had struck out every mention of Hitler's demand for "colonial equality of rights" lest the answer be too disagreeable for British public opinion...
...that Miss Berd employed nine men at $100 per week in her transactions, which extended as far as Canada. Riding around in a big limousine, she maintained personal contact with some people who claimed last week she gave them promissory notes in envelopes which were to be kept sealed lest the mitzvah turn into a "curse." Protested Miss Berd, charged with grand larceny: "Everything is a frame-up. You see I am smiling, so I have nothing to worry about. Whatever I did I did for the best. Everything is 100% perfect...