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Like Democrats and Republicans, Socialists mix politics and picnics, forensics and fun. Some 25,000 of them last week flocked to Ulmer Park, a big bare, boarded plot near Brooklyn's Coney Island, for an all-day political outing to start their party's national campaign. Working families brought boxes of coarse sandwiches, pickles and fruit. Hot dog stands did a sizzling business. Youngsters played on swings, rode the merry-go-round. Their parents lolled on newspapers listening to band music or strolled off to watch a soccer game. Trade groups sang songs. Broadway performers gave a free show...
...chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...
...Summer Holiday is less a novel than a thinly veiled autobiographical sketch. The story is dedicated to "Moira" the younger heroine, who with her dreamier sister Selina spends a blissful summer on a farm near Hastings, near Authoress Kaye-Smith's home town, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye...
...find out whether "Judge Wilkerson broke faith with Capone and with the District Attorney and whether he failed to do as he agreed," Attorney Johnson was invited by Senator Borah to come to Washington. Most of the all-day session was taken up by Attorney Johnson with a history of Al Capone and Chicago gangdom. Toward the end of this testimony Senator Borah interrupted, "I want to get hold of your arrangement with Judge Wilkerson...
...operating along the Louisiana coast. ¶ After purchasing three quarts of anti-freeze liquid at a gas filling station in Springfield, Mass, last week, a number of laborers went to the shores of a nearby pond, mixed the liquid with six quarts of water and sat down to an all-day carousal. Eight quarts of the concoction were consumed, one hidden. Seven of the men died within two days. The hidden quart, police believe, was later discovered by another man. He, too, died. With most the poison worked rapidly; one, however, was up and about the following day, worked, later...