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"When you groan under the burden of taxes," says the old handbill of 1932, "remember that the deficit at the end of the last two years of Hooverism is around $4-billion, the greatest in peacetime history.” (Estimated defiicit after 20 years of the Roosevelt-Truman administration — around $237.5-billion.) “tTaiiTt even cricket to start using our own ammunition on us.
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These election-year quips are getting to be fun. A Washington newsman recently characterized four of the democratic presidential candidates in th'is way: “One is running against Hoover, one is running against Stalin, one is running against sin, and the last one is running against time*” ^ -,--—
The latest predictions as heard in Rappahannock within the last 24 hours are two: one, Eisenhower will be the next president; two, if Taft is nominated, Truman will be reelected. It would be fun tc print the names of the prognosticators, but since both can’t be right, we won’t make them eat their words after the certain Tuesday in November.
o o o This seige of hot weather gives us a good time to read travel literature. Pictures ofj the Canadian Rockies show snow-capped mountains — and
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