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...interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for an early spring. Two hundred thousand livers, in torsos bound to northern swivel chairs, become torpid, cause unfortunate changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three hours later they plodded up from the eighteenth green, tired, satisfied, proud of scores. One had a card of 66, another 68; the other two were under 80. Par for the course...
...Heflin replied, waving his arms like a fretful windmill, pushing a bound volume of newspapers off his desk, knocking the spectacles from Senator Mayfield's nose...
...when analogous overproduction occurred, the relief cry was "Buy a Bale." The present cry is "Wear Cotton." Last week the only woman judge in the South, Virginia Henry Mayfield, at Birmingham, put out a reason: The adoption by southern women of more cotton clothing, instead of sensuous silk, would reduce work in the divorce courts; the return to past styles would give contentment in the home and aid to the farmer...
...Adopted a unanimous report from the Committee on Privileges and Elections dismissing the contest against the election of Senator Mayfield of Texas and declaring him duly elected without a dissenting vote...
Senator Sheppard nudged his friend. They continued their walk. Said Senator Sheppard: "It would be a fatal blow either to my colleague, Mayfield, or myself to reduce to the extent of 120 pounds. . . . The spectacle of a 40-pound member of the Senate would be a source of endless jest and the Senate has enough of ridicule...