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...some reason, Ward, an ice-veined 28-year-old Northwesterner who earns a livelihood as secretary of a Spokane "Boosters" Club, was unpopular with the predominantly Omaha gallery. According to widespread rumor, he had made disparaging comments about the Omaha Field Club course. Their dander up, touchy townsmen, 3,000 strong, booed Ward's shots, tried to rattle him as though he were a baseball pitcher. It got so bad President Pierce of the U.S. Golf Association interrupted the match, appealed for better sportsmanship...
...Meridian, Miss., Mayor Clint Vinson called on his fellow townsmen to pray for world peace every day at noon, ordered the city waterworks' whistle blown to remind them...
...That Simon is a lot better fighter than most people think," drawled the Cham pion. His fellow townsmen cheered the most exciting fight of the year, agreed that Simon should be expelled from the Bum-of-the-Month Club. Hardly had the crowd filed out of the arena when Promoter Mike Jacobs announced a return match between Simon and Louis - in New York, May 16, with a $15 instead...
...Congress to remove tax-exemption rights from all future bonds-Federal, State, local. There was no doubt that he would get authorization for issuing completely taxable Federal bonds, but passage of a law affecting State and local securities was another matter. Reason: opposition by municipalities and States'-righters. Townsmen, villagers and politicians girded their lobbyists last week for a death-&-taxes struggle with their Congressmen. Victory has always been on their side: Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; Treasury Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills all advocated abandonment of tax exemptions, were always defeated. Ignored were Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau...
...players in Sioux Falls, S. D. He got to know Meier, persuaded him to settle in Spearfish. It was a small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...