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...Farm Board's suggestion. Chairman Stone soon began backing away from his own proposal by declaring it was now up to the States to solve the problem. No consideration had been given to how 2.000,000 cotton planters could be united in such an enterprise, how the stubborn individualists among them could be coerced. Also the Farm Board had forgotten to arrange for the mortgages held by Government and private banks and plastered on almost every stalk of growing cotton...
...neglected to do so, Trainer Lambton gave his explanation himself last week. Horse Caerleon had been coughing (one of those summer colds that hang on & on). A good gallop was what he needed to sweat it out. "But," said the Hon. George, shaking his head sadly, "the horse is stubborn and sulky. A race does him more good than any number of home gallops...
...over last year's bumper crop. Such harvests stack one surplus on top of another, send prices down correspondingly. Acreage which the Farm Board has been pleading with growers to reduce 20% was cut less than 5%. While flaying short- sellers, President Hoover made no reference to the stubborn refusal of farmers to plant less grain...
...Stanley Thompson, 4, went wading, got in too deep, was brought out lifeless. When artificial respiration failed, his father, Traffic Manager Stanley Thompson of Transamerican Airline Corp. in Chicago, was notified. Father Thompson seized a pulmotor. leapt into an airplane, rushed to the scene, after an hour's stubborn work restored his son to life...
...recent school of New Testament criticism . . . which maintains that the Gospels are valid sources only for the history of the Primitive Church, not for the life of Jesus." The Resurrection, the Ascension he calls "comforting delusions." Though he thinks St. Paul "superb nonetheless" he dubs him "a fanatic, a stubborn, heedless, Christ-drunk agitator." Browne deprecates the establishment of the priesthood, thinks it was "as ominous as it was inevitable. Created so to 'bank' the fire of Christian faith, the priesthood threatened after a time to extinguish that fire altogether. Yet had not some form of organization developed, the fire...