Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With demand naturally set by hungry city stomachs and supply controlled by him and his kind. Farmer John Chalmers of Boone County, Iowa, did not see why agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five...
THEY WINTER ABROAD ? James Aston?Viking ($2.50). Clever stuff about English hotel-inmates in Italy, a la Aldous Huxley...
Picking over the 195 arriving delegates' luggage, Canada's reporters commented that some of it seemed to have been bought for the occasion and that some of the stuff was just wrapped up. They recorded that Premier Bennett had to walk down to the last car of an incoming train to meet Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to whom Mr. Bennett said, ''Greetings...
...later affable Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts dropped in to see Mr. Smith at the Empire State Building. Governor Ely will make the Smith nominating speech. Asked whether he would refer to Mr. Smith as the Happy Warrior, Governor Ely snapped: "We've graduated from that high school stuff, I hope." Mr. Smith appeared to tell newsmen that he had received by mail "about nine million clippings" of last fortnight's Scripps-Howard editorial...
...time to see the current Advocate, few can be unaware of the excellence of the journal, which rarely boasts anything better than the "Opening of a Long Poem." Excellence is by no means a rare quality in the magazine, but it is too often hidden in the mediocre stuff which has earned the publication its Lampoon reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only in its worst moments, partially because it is the traditional goat among...