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...more persistent nosebleed will usually yield, if the patient half reclines, keeps still, has cold cloths applied to his forehead. A wad of gauze may also be stuffed into the bleeding nostril...
More important last week than the passage of the resolution extending the remnants of NRA until April 1, 1936 was Senator Huey Long's filibuster against that measure. The filibuster resulted in Long's losing a fat wad of prestige, and the methods used to break his obstructionism, having once been found, are not likely to be forgotten, whereas NRA, as extended, can have no prestige, must be forgotten soon...
...tricks that make the work of smaller goalies more spectacular. These qualities give his style of play a peculiar indolence which he exaggerates as much as possible. Instead of chattering encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across his goal...
...Flandin has insisted that money rates must be eased, and to get them down he had to fire the National Tightwad, respected M. Clément Moret, since 1930 Governor of the Bank of France (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week new Governor Jean Tannery was ready to play loose-wad. The play, long since approved by the Cabinet and hashed over in the Press, consisted in presenting the Chamber of Deputies last week with a bill at which extreme conservatives screamed "Inflation...
Tobacco Annuity. In 1923 Tobacco Products was a $70,000,000 Virginia corporation with 20 well-advertised brand names, including Herbert Tareyton, Johnnie Walker, Melachrino. Today Tobacco Products is one of the so-called Morrow-interests, and its principal asset is a wad of stock in United Cigar Stores, which is in the hands of the courts...