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...Bubble & Squeak...
...Dark House (Universal). The British are a chipper, extraverted people, given to good table manners, 'God Save The King' and gobbling up puddings such as 'bubble & squeak...
...bill to raise by taxation $1,096,000,000 above current receipts. To make up the difference the committee anticipated a $125,000,000 cut in Government expenses and a $25,000,000 increase in postal income. If all worked well, which it rarely does, the Treasury would squeak through 1933 with $5,000,000 to spare. The new or increased taxes before the House and the estimated revenue from each were...
...Squeak & Whack. In the election that followed New York deserted the Brown Derby and went for Hoover, but, as a sort of political compensation, Mr. Roosevelt squeaked through to victory with a 25,000-vote majority. After two years as Governor, he was renominated and all on his own strength in 1930 won a whacking big victory with 725,001 votes to spare. His success in this second election was widely interpreted as his qualification for the Presidency, a proof of his vote-getting ability. Not until last week, however, would he publicly admit a national candidacy...
...Breen is an easygoing, practical-joking soul (her dinner guests have been given rolls which squeak when bitten). But her wrath was aroused when the American Federation of Musicians refused her admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics...