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...while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young potato plants to withered stalks, leaving a million Irish dead of starvation, and sending a million-odd more to the green fields of America.* In that grim year, reported the official Census of Ireland, "starving people lived on the carcasses of diseased cattle, dogs and dead horses." Was this year, Irishmen...
...Pierre, who now is never seen (or heard) in the Alley, is a luckless "schmo" who plays the ponies at "Epstein Downs" and "Hia-Levy." He is so unlucky that "if it is raining borsch outside, Pierre will be standing with a fork. He will also missing the potato...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
...TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved into our mental stomach. If Marshall Field, Hearst, McCormick...
They were the U.S. oil industry, the lumber industry; the coal interests, the copper interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...