Word: somersaulters
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...Hoergers, Ruth (12), Mary ( 11 ), and Helen (5), Mary distinguished herself most last week. In the springboard dive, she amazed her judges with a 2½ forward somersault which Olympic Platform Champion Dorothy Poynton Hill had said the day before no woman could ever hope to execute perfectly. When the judges, adding up points for her nine other efforts, declared 74-lb. Mary Hoerger the national champion, she bugged her eyes, wagged a hand at a judge, shrilled: "Hold me. My knees are weak." In the platform dive, Ruth Hoerger finished second to blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill...
Last week, therefore, the Dominion was prepared to tackle its wheat problem from a different angle. Passed by both houses of Parliament and approved by Governor-General the Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle." More friendly Canadian commentators gave the Premier credit for having ably aped President Roosevelt...
...Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...