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...Rub snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
Only six weeks ago Dr. Wolman, outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
...elbows on the desk, gives vent to a sigh, perhaps even a puff, and begins. Fifteen minutes contain a dignified, non-irritating drone, dedicated to the fact that Gladstone had gained a reputation as a great minister of finance. Then there may be an interruption. The professor will rub his eyes. He will give assurances that the following story is amusing. The story will consume five minutes. There will be renewed assurances that the story was amusing. The lecture will proceed...
...level up. General Motors which earned 11? a share ($6,870,000) in the first quarter, and 7? a share ($5,326,000) in the second quarter a year ago, last week reported three-month earnings of 90? a share ($41,198,169). Well might President Alfred P. Sloan rub his hands over these figures*#151;and very opportune were they, for General Motors still has $13,000,000 tied up in closed banks, much of which may prove a loss. Chrysler Corp. topped a first-quarter loss of $3,038,000 by a second-quarter profit...