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...week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...
...item "She Sees the Pope," concerning Rachel Kollock McDowell, is on the order of a current newsreel of the baptism of colored women who on being dipped go plumb crazy for the time being. This wave of emotionalism illustrated by Miss McDowell is now sweeping reason out of all countries and is unwholesome. Call it reason or emotion. Let us face facts and be reasonable...
...week did Vice President & General Manager Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this pious point home, declaring that: "From time immemorial, people have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of their loved ones. In a greater sense this has been a service to the living. By keeping these last resting places as hallowed spots, free from all temptations...
...plumb going to be declared if the artists and the advertisers don't get together with the fly fisherman...
Finley (E) defeated Fox (K), 3-2; Coolidge (E) defeated Clark (K), 3-2; Mason (E) defeated Strobhar (K), 3-1; match between Plumb (E) and Staples (K), postponed; Dane (E) defeated McDonald...