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With the votes of New Deal haters in his pocket at the outset, Nominee Landon planned and began his campaign last summer as a temperate appeal to middle-of-the-roaders who liked most New Deal promises, were dissatisfied with New Deal performance. For a time his restrained New Deal criticism contrasted strangely with the rampant New Deal damnation of his Vice-Presidential running mate, his National Chairman...
...thousands of horse races he has seen since, Mr. Jacobs has bet on remark ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list...
...very outset, I should like to state that I expect neither a retraction from TIME, nor the shouldering of any responsibility for the inference created by TIME in its article on Palestine in the May 4 issue...
...resulted from the policy of the two nations that are most in sympathy with its ideals. France and England, mutually engaged in working out their own diplomatic salvation, have shuffied the Council about like a football, making effective sanctions or a realistic settlement equally impossible at the outset. What little prestige the League has been able to salvage cannot be credited to Paris or London...
...Storm Child," the new play which John Craig, 2nd, and Mary Young are presenting these days at the Copley Theatre is a horror play in the accepted Boris Karloff tradition and is to be commended at the outset for including every dramatic element which might be conceived as pertinent to a genuine, old style terrorizer...