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...hour of 8 a.m. the unrecognized Argentine Minister in Washington, Rodolfo Garcia Arias, called at the Chilean Chancellory. The sleepy mayordomo let him in, telephoned Ambassador Marcial Mora at his home. The Ambassador was shaving, but he hurried downtown without breakfast, to receive with reluctant hands a diplomatic hot potato: a memorandum from the Argentine Government for delivery to the Government of the U.S. It announced that Argentina had asked the Pan American Union to call a full-dress conference of Foreign Ministers to consider the Argentine case...
Jackpot. In Towanda, Pa., Carl Sloat, in one tour of his backyard, ran across a double four-leaf clover, a V-shaped potato, and his wife's wedding ring...
...Baltimore, Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin juggled a hot potato. He had all but committed the Municipal Stadium (capacity 60,000) to Gene Tunney of Arch Ward & Co. The Meehan interests, headed by big, bluff James Lacy (Lacy Iron & Foundry Works), bellowed that the bowl should go to his group of Baltimoreans, rather than to an out-of-town ex-heavyweight champ. Here, too, the Payne boys seemed to be whistling in the dark...
...Room of Washington's Statler Hotel were gathered the elite of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, and the elite of the city's political society-assorted czars, administrators and politicians. They were met together to eat roast chicken, Virginia ham, peas, potato croquettes, salad, ice cream and coffee, to drink California sauterne and, more important, to get an answer to the biggest of the Democrats' political questions: has The Old Master still...
...Northwestern, Coach Lynn Waldorf threw away his book of intricate spinners and reverses, adopted a set of simple plays, figured he had practically the entire Big Ten to worry about - then his quarter back, ex-Marine Jack Doyle, choked on a French fried potato and cracked an injured...