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What causes the spry, fun-loving grasshopper, whose meanest trick is spitting "tobacco juice" on fishermen's fingers, to become the voracious, pillaging locust that every farmer hates & fears? Last week at Cornell University Dr. Jacobus Christian Faure announced that the same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They...
Married. Florence T. Baker, daughter of George Fisher Baker Jr., granddaughter of the late, great financier; and Thomas Suffern Tailer, Manhattan & Newport socialite, Princeton sophomore, metropolitan amateur golf champion (last fortnight) ; in Locust Valley...
...TIME, May 16, in your article headed "Locusts," you quote the President of the U. S. as saying that the halls of Congress were ''haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" and then TIME remarks, ". . . active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year to secure Congressional favors include the following. . . . Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...
...always give your magazine credit for knowing actual facts, but in your issue of May 16 under "Locust" active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year, to secure Congressional favor . . . you list Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance...
Startling indeed is TIME'S list of the "locust swarm of lobbyists," appearing in your May 16 issue...