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...college paper and studied billiards." He was in Vienna in 1919 when the London Daily Herald made him its Balkans reporter. United Press got him four years later, sent him to Moscow and Berlin. When the Nazis made it hot for him after he had reported their Reichstag arson plot as just that, he moved on to London. Marshall Field lured...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander Hoffman, C.I.O. union official and Left Wing sympathizer, who was sentenced on Dec. 4, 1940, to four to eight years in Sing Sing for attempted arson . . . and conspiracy...
While C. R. waited last week for London's ear or shoulder, the Indian upheaval continued. Courts and jails were jammed with demonstrators. In one Central Indian court alone, 408 persons were on trial for murder, looting, arson. The profound gravity of the Indian impasse for the United Nations' war effort and spirit was suggested by London News Chronicle Correspondent Stuart Emeny...