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...Understanding Heart." At the Los Angeles station 30 ragged individuals appeared with a placard: "Welcome to Roosevelt from the Forgotten Men." The Governor was greeted by Charles H. Randall, Republican president of the City Council. Mayor John C. Porter, who last year declined to drink an alcoholic toast in France, at first refused to receive the Democratic nominee "because he's Wet and I'm Dry." When amid hurrahing thousands the Roosevelt automobile passed City Hall, Mayor Porter sprinted out, ran up to the machine, stuck out his hand, panted: "III want to welcome you to Los Angeles." All smiles...
Analogs of Professor Auguste Placard's flights toward the stratosphere above Switzerland are Dr. William Beebe's dives toward the bottom of the sea off Bermuda. Dr. Beebe, field agent for the New York Zoological Society, uses a bathysphere. 4¾ ft. quartz-windowed steel ball with walls 1½ in. thick. Its purpose is to withstand the pressure of deep sea water, whereas Professor Piccard's 7-ft. aluminum gondola was constructed to prevent its explosion in rarefied...
Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seized the Golden Bear flag of Cali fornia and started a procession. Banker William H. Crocker uprooted the State's placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang...
Most important of all to the success of the demonstration was one Charles Shep herd Hutson. Los Angeles lithographer and grand jury foreman. His duty it was to stand back on the platform and hold up a series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...
When Mr. Hutson held up Placard 2 the band stopped playing "California, Here I Come" and fell into "Happy Days Are Here Again," Governor Rolph's official tune. Along toward Placard 15 a talking film of President Hoover urging the Senate to balance the Budget was thrown on the screens. Another placard wound up the demonstration with "Onward Christian Soldiers...