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Marble v. Velvet (Cont...
...Supreme Court last week continued the business of weighing the velvet offered farmers by the New Deal against the marble of the Constitution, "General" Reed had on his hands three all-important cases on two prime New Deal laws. One involved the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, without which crop reductions in the South might quickly go to pot. The other two were concerned with the AAAct and its processing taxes...
...this Lord de Clifford, whose mother was a six-foot showgirl, came towering in -six feet five inches of gangling but impeccably groomed youth. Escorting him to the bar, where he fell on his knees upon a velvet cushion, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod boomed, "Oyez, oyez. God save the King...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
...NATIONAL VELVET''-Enid Bagnold- Morrow...