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Committeeman Norman E. Mack of New York stirred things up by declaring that Governor Smith stood for State-determinism, against prohibition, for temperance. Governor Smith curtly confirmed this "news." When the Resolutions Committee began its work none could guess how the drink plank would be phrased or by whom. Senators Pittman of Nevada and King of Utah, Drys both, were for conciliation through vagueness. Boss Brennan of Illinois said: "No sensible Democrat ought to worry. . . . Only one person in 25,000 thinks and only one in 50,000 reads the party platform...
...Alaska holds 2,500 giant brown bears, classified with the grizzly in the census. Outside that territory, diligent search could produce but 880 grizzlies, half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...
...latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in C Major...
...Trouble! None, excepting that nobody outside of Massachusetts ever heard of Cox. This convention has got to nominate Curtis and is going to nominate him or I shall know the reason why! Let me warn you now, Senator, you can tell the Hoover crowd that Curtis has got to be nominated to keep the western states in line and if anybody else is put up I shall go before the convention and present his name and make a fight for it, and I think I can put him across...
...hits Barbee, Lord, Prior Base on balls-off Ethridge 4, off Hallett, 3, Cassldy 1, by Hallett 3, Left on bases-Harvard 11, William and Mary 3. Double plays-Bloxsom to Scammon. Hits-or Cassidy, 3 in 2 innings (note out in taird); off Etheridge 5 in 3 inngs (none out in sixth); off Hallett 5 in 3 innings Passed balls-O'Farrell 2. Wild pitch-Cassedly. Time-2.07 Umpires-Stafford and Kellether...