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Author of the beer bill was Mississippi's "Lame Duck" Collier. Ways & Means chairman, longtime Dry. On it the committee held a fortnight's hearings which in vehement arguments, loud controversy and ardent pleadings resembled many another Wet & Dry set-to at the Capitol. There was, however, this important difference: the committee's mind was made up in advance to act on beer. Thus, with their case already won, the Wets restricted their testimony to a minimum. Brewers supplied trade
...books are signed, apparently was much interested in influencing undergraduate opinion on everyday topics. Hence, there are editorials written by him on the support of the debating and chess teams; another preaches against the use of tobacco at football games because it annoyed the ladies present; and beside one vehement article on the subject of taking ladies to chapel appears a scribbled indictment of "fussing at Vespers...
...with Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. which sponsors a girls' basketball team called the Golden Cyclones. Cyclone Didrikson began to take an interest in track & field athletics. At the A. A. U. championships for women last month she won five championships, tied for another. Last week, lean, vehement, 21-year-old Babe Didrikson was hungrily contemplating further activities. Said she: "I expect our basketball team . . . to win the national championship. I'll be the high scorer. . . . My mind is set on winning a national golf championship. . . . I can outdrive most women golfers now. . . . I like all sports because I enjoy running...
...German masses, on the other hand, have so often heard their leaders tell the world that Germany can pay nothing that Chancellor von Papen's consent to pay something was sullenly received. In Paris vehement Deputies and Senators vied with each other in telling correspondents that the U. S. can expect to receive from France payments proportional to what France receives from Germany and not one sou more. In Rome the official Giornale d'Italia said: "Lausanne was the beginning, not the end. . . . The fate of the Lausanne agreement depends on the attitude of the United States, from...
...Aren't We All? (Paramount British), Director Harry Lachman helps to shatter the glittering surfaces of Author Frederick Lonsdale's play by hammering them with irrelevant elaborations. His cast-with the exception of Gertrude Lawrence-does likewise. Hugh Wakefield delivers parlor witticisms with a smile more vehement than that of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting...