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...referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop. Other Mennonite farmers have therefore signed. But not the Amishmen, despite the fact that a tenet of their religion requires meek obedience to the law of the land. Last week AAA officials in Washington were perplexed over the matter, finally decided that the thing to do was to have Congress amend the Tobacco Control Act exempting the Amishmen as "conscientious objectors...
...MONKEYS HAVE No TAILS in ZAMBOANGA - Capt. S. P. Meek - Morrow ($2). Soldier stories of tropical U. S. Army posts; second-rate Kiplingesque...
...mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...
Junior Varsity summary: HARVARD ARMY Edward Gerry, No. 1 No. 1, Palmer Fox, No. 2 No. 2, Meek Henry Gerry, back back, McElroy...
Score--Harvard 12, Army 3. Goals--Edward Gerry 7, Fox 3, Henry Gerry Palmer, Hines (substitute for Palmer), Meek. Time--7 1-2--minute chukkers...