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...Governor Lehman of New York came for lunch and Franklin Roosevelt's understood purpose was to get his sore-tried friend to whoop up the New Deal in his campaign for reelection. Mr. Lehman, unforgetting foe of the Court Plan, returned to his stump with kind words for Franklin Roosevelt but no New Deal honey on his tongue...
...only the hustings but U. S. history seemed to be in Franklin Roosevelt's mind as, in his ten-car, air-cooled special train, he rolled westward out of Washington last week. Politician Roosevelt was out to whoop it up for his supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin...
...popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer Bateman skeptically stepped over to the river, then let out a whoop. Sure enough, there was a monster, "as big as a box car and as slick as a slimy elephant without legs." Farmer Bateman rushed off to Newport, six miles away...
...metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that Business Pundit Bertie Charles Forbes quoted level-headed President Shattuck Gates of big Phelps Dodge Corp. as declaring: "This is no time to whoop things up, to send prices of copper skyrocketing. . . . The industry was making steady progress in a satisfactory way. It would be a pity to bring about hectic conditions which in the nature of things could not be expected to last." And as evidence of the industry's wholesome progress...
Until the past few years, the interest which this sport commanded was negligible. Neither the College at large nor even many of the players themselves cared to give more than a half-hearted whoop in Hades concerning its activity. Since then two events have intervened; first, Harvard joined the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, second, a thoroughly competent coach was appointed...