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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote given Roosevelt makes it obvious that no opposition campaign manager could have won the election. Mr. Hamilton suddenly found himself faced with the task of mobilizing the forces of a major party in four months. Except in state and local governments he could not rely on patronage, as Mr. Farley could. Nor did he have a well greased machine of relief workers, AAA check recipients, and thousands of others receiving financial benefits from the government. Hamilton has great odds to figlit against, and he did the best he could under adverse circumstances...
...Local hockey critics will have their first chance of the season to see if all the bouquets handed out to Joe Stubbs's 1937 sextet are deserved when the Varsity pucksters cross sticks with M.I.T. on the Arena ice at 8:15 o'clock this evening...
...liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily "pony" (telephone) United Press service from Portland. For local news, Editor Kelly gave his staff a definite formula : "We realized that subscribers to our paper were also readers of at least one of the other [evening] papers, and ... we carried no rewrites. . . . We published a new paper every morning. . . . We also ignored the theory that a morning paper...
...when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...
...Packers are the oldest team in the National League. Coach of the Packers since 1919 has been Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, a Green Bay boy who played at Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green Bay, Wis. (pop. 45,000) a U. S. sporting institution, by winning the National League championship three times, but they have made themselves...