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Furthermore, the Oil Code, undisturbed by the Supreme Court's decision, was still in force. That code was supposed to outlaw hot oil but, through an "error" which was not discovered for nearly a year, the pertinent section was missing from certified official copies...
...Mara had never seen a football game. A onetime newsboy, theatre usher and racetrack bookie from Manhattan's East Side, he bought a franchise in the National League for $500 in 1925, the year before Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle invaded New York with Red Grange and an "outlaw" league. By preserving his New York franchise during a feud with Pyle, Mara saved the organization which, set up in 1921, is now indisputably the sport's major league...
...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
...part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week...
Legislative hobbies: Farmers, Indians, peace. In the forefront of any farm relief agitation, he proposed last winter that the Government refinance farm mortgages with new currency, at a cost of $9,000,000,000. He threw his whole weight behind the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war, hopes that some day the U. S. will make armed conflict unconstitutional. In appearance he is tall, bald, hulking. He dresses carelessly. He belongs to no church, goes to none...