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...whole flock of scholarships. What I'm coming to is where does my son Pete come in? I naturally want him to go to Harvard and follow in my footsteps in the higher income brackets. Are you going to exclude him? I hope not, because he's really a peach. I remain, R. Van Revaler...
This had been tried locally by such stores as First National in Massachusetts and Safeway in California. But it had been attempted on a nation-wide scale for the first time only a month before the conference between farmers and chains. California cling peach growers found themselves with a carry over from 1935 of 6,469,000 cases of canned peaches, 72% more than the previous year. With a big 1936 crop impending, it appeared that peach prices might drop to $15 per ton, substantially less than the cost of production. Growers appealed to the chains. Ted Braun and National...
Descended on his father's side from the first Earl of Warwick, on his mother's from Commodore Charles Stewart of Virginia, Parnell spent a year on his brother's Alabama peach farm long before he ever contemplated a political career. The picture picks up his story five years after his original election to Parliament, when he has become leader of the fight for Ireland's Home Rule. The climax of Parnell's career has been ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play...
...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
...journal which was thus defended is like no other paper on earth. It is a peach and saffron tabloid full of hand-me-down line drawings and photographs of celebrated sundowners, sentimental verse, advertisements of rabbits' feet and "surprise novelties." personalities and good advice. Founded last winter as a quarterly, the Hobo News was soon converted to a monthly. It is distributed in Manhattan by its editors, elsewhere by itinerants at 5? a copy— 10? "if we can get it." Current edition: 50,000 copies. In an effort to avoid just such an embarrassing situation as Editor Benson...