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...business proposition, needs lots of advertising. In 1917 the U. S. Government discovered this fact when it set about drafting an army of 4,000,000 men and borrowing 20 billion dollars. To construct a publicity machine for the next emergency, the War Department last week commissioned William Hector Rankin, 53-year-old Manhattan advertising man, as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve corps...
...General Staff counts on the immediate operation of the Selective Service System (i. e. the Draft) to supply manpower for a sudden war. Prime problem is to publicize that system quickly to secure registration. Col. Rankin's first job will be to prepare a campaign to advertise the Draft before the first gun is fired...
...sooner had the President proclaimed the law than Representatives John Elliott Rankin of Mississippi and Lester Jess Dickinson (Senator-elect) of Iowa flayed it. Dickinson said he would propose increasing the House by at least 27 members, so that no State should lose Representatives. Rankin returned to his old criticism of the Constitution which decrees that representation shall be calculated according to the number of "persons" residing in a locality. He cried: "Is it right to give the alien rum runners and racketeers representation in Congress and take it away from Indiana, Tennessee, the Dakotas, Kentucky and Missouri...
...smart Jacksonvillains triumphed. After four 18-hole rounds (par, 56) blond J. K. Scott who says he scores from 75 to 80 on real golf courses won the $2.000 first prize for men with 223. Mrs. J. E. Rankin who won the $2,000 for the best lady was from Jacksonville too. Her score was 241. Putter Newton Coggins from Jacksonville and Mrs. R. L. Stone of Chattanooga were runners...
...Gilbert '34 was headed into the net by G. C. Streeter '34 and R. M. Gummere Jr. '34. Beyrd, right full back, played the best game for the visitors. The lineups: HARVARD 1934 DEAN Lawrence, g. g., Smith Pollard, r.f.b. r.f.b., Beyrd Parkinson, l.f.b. l.f.b., Gifford Whitney, r.h.b. r.h.b., Rankin Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Larsen Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Weafer Gilbert, o.r.f. o.r.f., Wilkinson Streeter, i.r.f. i.r.f., Clare Gummere, c.f. c.f., Fernandez Martin, Bloomberg, i.l.f. i.l.f., Snow Baxter, o.l.f. o.l.f., Clark...