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...moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church. And the incident was closed with a few parting, typically Stratonian epithets: "Bluffer . . . Tammany trickster . . . coward...
...that the government is paying rentals of twenty million dollars in the nation. True economy would be effected by the erection of Federal buildings, especially in the numerous instances where sites acquired many years ago have been left vacant because the administration did not desire to have these expenditures appear in the budget. It is not economy to refuse to spend money and to have our soldiers living in barracks which the Chief of Staff of the Army recently stated were indecent and below the standard for the meanest type of housing permitted anywhere. And the wise, properly timed construction...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
Albert La Frenière was the only one who succeeded in reaching the shore. When he was revived and informed that the others were certainly drowned, he told a story which made it appear that none of the great legends of the death of captains or of the heroism of priests surpassed the way in which Father Dubuc had conducted himself at the end of his picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution...
...Straight" Reporters. Humblest, because their names seldom appear; most serviceable, because they are instructed to be nonpartisan, to avoid prediction or speculation, to report no anonymous opinions, to report happenings factually and completely; most influential, because their reports reach by far the greatest number of people-are what might be called the Straight Reporters, the correspondents of the big news services. This year the Associated Press keeps two men and a woman, the United Press one man, near each Nominee continually. Writing their cautious, colorless reports, these writers are either unsung heroes or stenographic automata...