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...opens meetings by singing My Old Kentucky Home, is ever ready to oblige with Sonny Boy, Mother Machree or any other song the crowd calls for. Riding between towns he talks incessantly and watches for white horses, which he considers lucky. For each one he sees he licks his thumb and stamps it into the palm of his hand...
...release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he dare not stand up and defend British subjects!" After some further parliamentary billingsgate, the matter was left to the British Embassy in Moscow. Most prominent of the twelve Indians arrested in Russia as Trotskyists is the former chief agent of the Moscow Third International in recruiting...
Sirs: After our tourist bureaus spent oodles of money advertising that the map of Michigan is the Right Hand of Hospitality Extended you fellows call it the left hand palm-down, in TIME, July 4-5 article on "Electrified Thumb." Helpful, aren't you ? M. JORLING Saginaw, Mich...
Sirs: . . . No doubt, the REA is to be lauded for its Thumb child. However, TIME has overlooked another public-spirited organization. . . . Detroit Edison bought the interests of an ill-managed, holding-company-owned public utility company in The Thumb in 1935. . . . In November 1935, 11,000 Thumb farmers were in need of rural electric service: within two years D.E.C. had supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when...
...nearly 400 cooperatives, helped build some 84,000 miles of lines, which it strings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 a mile. Private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors. In 20 projects, notably The Thumb Cooperative, REA has also financed the building of generators, but other projects buy their power wholesale from private companies or municipal plants...