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...retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked a clover leaf to chew while playing, as has always been his habit...
Deficits. The fiscal 1937 deficit of $2,707,000,000 is only about 60% of fiscal 1936's deficit of $4,361,000,000. This is the smallest deficit since the New Deal began, but it is the seventh successive annual deficit...
...prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket in the wall known as Jim Brakeman's Bootery, "smallest shoe store in the world." Jim. a 250-lb. former State footballer, does not close under just any order. And the student body likes Jim pretty well...
...noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength...
...Rows of Roosevelt" and the "Name Song." The latter will be accompanied by a motion picture of the classmates under discussion. The dancing will be another high spot in the show, and the "Fancy Formations" waltz ballet number by the daughters of 1912 is by no means the smallest item of entertainment. Fred Child, professional dancing mentor, has directed this part of the affair...