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Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...
...this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community of interest" to a point where a last desperate jump backward will only find us stuck in the gumbo of our own stupidity. 6) And lastly, that the only thing worse than a bully at a peanut stand is a bully in Grand Central Station...
...opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford to ... drive them all over into the potato field...
...other words, cotton control had put farmers into tobacco, and tobacco control had put them into peanuts, and peanut control had put them into potatoes. Potato Control was adopted as an AAA evolution to protect about 30,000 farmers who make their main living out of potatoes and do not want their crop invaded by other farmers whose land has been rendered idle by the other AAA controls. To give them that protection Mr. Hutson will have to regulate half again as many farmers as raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect...
...present Princeton lineup is a fixture and there is about as much chance of another man crashing his way into the company of Dave Roberts, Hank Roberts, Stew Ranch, Pete Cook, Dev Warner, Captain Chevy Echeverria, Al Edwards, Killer Cooks, and Cox Peanut MacRae as the Princeton Varsity has of winning at Poughkeepsie (where it is not entered...