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...most entertaining aspect of the afternoon was the voice which exuded periodically from the public address system to inform '32 of the various events and excursions which were available to them. A sizable amount of grads, wives, and offspring left to enjoy the sands of Magnolia Beach, but an equally large number stayed behind to vegetate and spectate on the Club grass...
Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
...actions. "We are accustomed to that," said Thompson. The facts were that the U.S. Government had not once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble Refining Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, and from Magnolia Oil Co., a Socony subsidiary, both of them major Texas refiners with an economic stake in higher tidewater production...
...between themselves. At tournament's end North Carolina was the new champion (63-55) of the "tobacco triangle," a sleepy corner of eastern Carolina that habitually produces two or three of the finest college teams in the land. Actually, it was a great victory for such fine old magnolia-scented, deep-Southern communities as The Bronx, Brooklyn and Bergenfield...
...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...