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...Administration and traders, who had thought support loans and exports would prop up prices, were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...
...bamboozling some of the best news hands in the country. But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands. All they have to say is: 'This is off the record, boys,' and our reporters can then trot in dutifully and tell us that they know the whole story, but that they can't write...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
There was a time when any Thanksgiving editorial worth a small drumstick had to discuss the pros and cons of President Roosevelt's New Deal Turkey Trot, and whether or not such a holiday shift was in the best interests of society. An early Thanksgiving, went the argument, was convenient for the Christmas Card and affiliated industries, but worked hardships on the farmer who fattened his fowl. If the editorial writer were sufficiently steamed up, he might lose all sight of mince-meat, hard sauce, and associated victuals in his chase after a good solution...
Under Blaik's new two-platoon system, Cain & Stephenson operate only on offense. They trot out on the field when the Cadets have the ball, trot off when the enemy...