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...recent years America has been especially rich in demagogues, from Mayor Thompson to the magnificent Huey Long of Louisiana, but none of them surpass "Alfalfa Bill" in the hearty buffoonery which is a large part of their appeal. His refusal to shave his moustache on the ground that doing so is injurious to the eyes deserves to be a classic of Americana. The obliging habit of standing on his head for reporters as proof that advanced ago has not destroyed his vigor is likewise a masterpiece of publicity hunting. With the Democratic convention approaching, his efforts for prominence will doubtless...
...billion eight hundred million Christ mas Seals went into the mails last week, despatched to penny philanthropists by the 2,084 sub-organizations of the National Tuberculosis Association. The Association does not expect to realize the $18,000,000 which the stamps represent. But it does hope to surpass the $5,300,000 raised last year. The 2,084 local headquarters are utilizing the most insistent names they can enlist for their collection work. In the Manhattan district the name is Thomas William Lament; in Chicago, David Forgan; in St. Louis, John E. Edwards; in Boston, Dr. John B. Hawes...
...tons in the last year of the Second F. Y. P. This was cut last week to 25,000,000 tons at Comrade Stalin's suggestion. More important, a switch was indicated from the program of expanding Soviet heavy industries ("to catch up with and surpass the U. S." as Stalin once put it) to concentrate at once on light industries. These would make shoes, clothing, farm implements, sewing machines and simple necessities like needles for which Soviet peasants clamor. From light industries would also come readily salable articles which Russia could "dump" abroad, thus further redressing her trade...
...Holyoke. The college daughters average 5 feet 4 8-10 inches in height. They are 1 1-10 inches taller and 7.25 pounds heavier than their mothers. Comparative data seem to indicate that this increase in weight has been going on for the last century. The daughters surpass their mothers in every dimension except breadth of hips, and in this dimension there is a superiority on the part of the mothers, amounting to 2.73 cm. or more than one inch...
Cornell's collection, the largest in the country, has unique material concerning the earlier history of the island, but Harvard's new gift is said to surpass it in the more recent fields...