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...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...
Arriving in Manhattan after a two-month cruise in the Gulf of California, William Beebe, popular authority on fish, revealed that for the first time in his life he had caught a big fish-a 207-lb. swordfish which he landed in 35 minutes...
...meet any geisha girls?" chortled Vice President John Nance Garner as he stepped ashore in Seattle. "I'll have to consult my diary." On the last lap of their two-month junket to Japan, China and the Philippines (at the expense of the Philippine Commonwealth), the Vice President, 17 Senators and 29 Representatives with their wives and children entrained for Washington. At Spokane Junketeer Garner, snugly installed in an upper berth, refused to come down for cameramen, bored deeper into his pillow. One canny photographer focused his camera, stood back, ventured : "I still maintain the only way to catch...
...Rides Again (Paramount) is the third in a series of six Westerns to be released at two-month intervals. Its hero, famed in cowboy lore, is Hopalong Cassidy, created and kept alive in a score of Western books by Clarence E. Mulford. In this one Cassidy (William Boyd) is summoned by Jim Arnold of the S V Ranch to clean up a gang of rustlers. Cassidy brings along Johnny Nelson and Red Connors of Bar-20, plays a lone hand himself. Posing as a Texas gambler, he finds the gang's hideout, discovers that its leader is a cold...
...two-month Congressional blockade, quarreling pilots, a cautious paymaster and the staggering difficulty of creating honest work for multimillions of hands had made the Relief ship's progress painfully slow and stormy. By July 1 not a single new job had been made. When the next major deadline, Nov. 1, came & went with the goal less than half achieved. President Roosevelt cautiously predicted that "a great majority" of the promised jobs would have been provided by Dec. 1. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins flatly set that date as the last & final deadline for ending the Federal dole, with the idea that...