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...many A.B.W. members work for such big-time institutions. Most come from small towns like the A.B.W.'s most prominent ex-member, U.S. Treasurer Clark, once president of a bank in Richland, Kans...
...national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given...
...them, radioactive poisons, was mentioned briefly and guardedly in the Smyth Report. Wrote Professor Smyth: ". . . The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000 kw. chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The three plutonium piles at Richland, Wash. are enormously more powerful. If Professor Smyth's estimate was right, each pile has been producing, every day for more than a year, enough radioactive poisons to depopulate many "large areas...
Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
...farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies.' Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent...