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...been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year's election. Such treachery to Rio Grande and himself has provoked Getulio Vargas to set up a parliamentary bloc to undermine General Flores...
...Manhattan banquet, New Jersey's Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman suggested that the G. O. Party emblem be changed from the elephant to the deer since the deer would "make a better run" and "a few bucks and a little doe would not hurt a damn bit." Thereupon the guests were treated by the toastmaster to a three stanza Hoffman poem, Where's My Daddy?, about a father who gets run over by an automobile...
...they transferred the Northwestern cadaver to their buggy. One drove away to Chicago, the other got into the Northwestern buggy, pretended he was the corpse. In due course the drinkers left the tavern, continued their journey toward Chicago. Soon one remarked that the corpse seemed to be getting warmer. Thereupon the Rush student gave the Northwesterners the scare of their lives by muttering: "You'd be getting warmer too, if you had been baking in hell as long as I have...
...regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati's $25,000 to Wisconsin's $15,000, but after a three-hour conference, during which he was promised a car, a chauffeur, a horse, and other perquisites, he accepted. Thereupon the committee prepared to have his appointment formally confirmed by the full Board of 15 Regents this week...
...keep her door open to the less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...