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Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...
Another development yesterday originated in Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Major General Daniel B. Strickler shifted his quid and confessed he had realized "that the winning of the National League pennant by the Phillies is a great thing for the people of Pennsylvania...
...farmers did themselves proud: less than 1% of the world's population, they produced food for nearly half of the world. But there was a bill attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...
...past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...