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There is one spectacular scene in which an aviator, whose receiving set has gone dead, is heard talking and joking by radio to the ground force just before he cracks up virtually onstage in an attempt to land in a fog. Largely because of this harrowing sequence, and the arrant Boy Scoutism among the pilots off duty, Ceiling Zero does not make a convincing advertisement for air travel...
...rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
Last week when President Roosevelt finally named the Securities & Exchange Commission, Wall Street was not surprised that four of its five members were arrant New Dealers. Since commissioners will in future serve for five years, one retiring every year, the first appointments were staggered for varying terms...
...concealed rage of King George (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), Australia was the first Dominion to demand and get a native governor general hand-picked by the Dominion. The Irish Free State followed when the arrant Republican Donal Buckley was given the job in 1932. Canada may be the next. Last week the Winnipeg Free Press pointed...
...other trick to stop tax evasions was announced by Mr. Morgenthau. Here after every taxpayer's return must be signed by the expert or lawyer, if any, who advised him in figuring his debt to the Treasury. Thus if arrant crockery is found, the lawyer responsible may be dis barred. Respectable lawyers will give their clients shyster advice only at the risk of their reputations. For this new tax wrinkle U. S. lawyers can thank Earle Bailie, partner in the banking house of J. & W. Seligman...