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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Father Coughlin and grandfather Townsend has kinda slowed up organizin folks-and since they's a lot thet ain't named George or Fanny-I got a ideer I'd like ter form a organization of former apple butter stirrers. It would be called the "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpet-uatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days...
...Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
Editor Woods philosophically decided that: 1) circus and press are comparable enterprises, except that the circus is "a lot saner"; 2) circus folks are not lowbrow, because he heard no vulgar remarks, little profanity in the tents, because they were eager to discuss such things as the labor situation, which they agreed was worse in Washington than in any other State in the union...
...20th Century-Fox lot in Hollywood one day last week half-a-dozen men were grouped in and about a queer-looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this...
Freshmen will find that this competition affords an excellent means of getting to know members of their class as well as upperclassmen and coaches, and that everyone who competes receives training in businesslike methods of work and has a chance to get a lot more out of college than many...