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Literary Digest. Greatest straw-vote taker, the Literary Digest, whose polls predicted with considerable accuracy Repeal and the defeat of Hoover, last week reported the tabulation of 987,000 ballots from 41 states. Its question: "Do you NOW approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal to date?" Its answers...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior, convicted bribe-taker, grandson of a co-founder of the Disciples of Christ (Camp-bellites). was visited by priests, baptized a Roman Catholic...
...Taker...
...figured that we had about enough to pay off the hotel's deputy sheriff, who had been following us for six weeks. We had just ordered a big dinner when the manager came running up to tell us that our credit was no longer good, as the ticket taker had eloped with the tattoed lady between the twenty-first and the twenty-ninth encores, taking our night's receipts with...
...makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky Nelson's ticket taker when he asks her to go back and wait at their hotel...