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...news items. In Chicago Patrolman John Shannon arrested two men as "Reds" when he heard them argue about it. In Roseland, Manhattan dance hall, a new dance was named after it. In Chicago was formed the Technocratic Party of the U. S., sponsored by the sponsors of the Anti-Rodeo League and the Mental Patients Defenders' Association. But more importantly...
Oldtime patrons of Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
Second Game was a well-pitched battle between 23-year-old Lon Warneke of the Cubs, who won more games (22) in his first big league season than any other National League pitcher, and 22-year-old Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez, tall, lean, left-handed Yankee, who comes from Rodeo, Calif. Chicago got one run in the first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next...
...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...
...fame of Goldsboro's Hoovercart Rodeo spread. Rodeos and parades were held in Oxford (469 entries), in Roxboro, Kinston and Wendell. More & more Hoovercarts appeared on North Carolina roads, spread northward into Virginia. Last week the first one appeared on the streets of Danville (pop. 22,247). Virgilina, Va. organized a Hoovercart parade...