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...some Brule River promoter give General Eisenhower a fast shuffle with phony fish scales? If the General himself actually said that scant two-pounder weighed 5½ [TIME, Sept. 15], somebody must have pulled the wool (Cap, Field, Wool, O.D.) over his eyes...
...From the pulpit of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. Powell Davies denounced longer skirts. Long skirts are "immoral," he declared, because they "will deprive the shivering people of Europe of the wool they need to keep them warm in a coal-less winter...
...easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...
Down with Boston! Governors of four of the nation's big wool-producing states -Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming-began a concerted drive to break Boston's domination of the wool business. Colorado's Governor William Lee Knous said they would meet in November to discuss the possibilities of processing western wool in the West...
...felt in the realm of international trade. Said the Times: "[The bill] represents the very antithesis of the policy which the nations of the world, under the leadership of the United States, laid down at London and have been seeking to implement at Geneva." With the U.S. stand on wool (TIME, June 2) already blocking agreement at Geneva, the restrictive sugar bill was more evidence that the U.S. was all in favor of freeing world trade-as long as it did not disturb any Congressman's constituents...