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...longtime Dry from Arkansas-Joseph Taylor Robinson. In 1928 Senator Robinson ran for Vice President as a Dry beside Wet Al Smith. In 1931 he was still doggedly opposed to his party's Wet turn. At a Washington meeting he thundered Bryanesquely: "You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull & crossbones of an outlaw trade." But after last year's Chicago convention, Senator Robinson, loyal Democrat, swallowed his personal opinions...
...incredibly loud Denver Post blared out last week with the biggest news story of its career. Streaming across eight columns, three big, black banner lines roared: FREDERICK G. BONFILS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE POST, DIES AT HOME EARLY THURSDAY Wide black rules bordered every column. The whole front page except one column, which carried the weather report and Arthur Brisbane, was crammed with news of the death, surrounding a large picture of Publisher Bonfils. PRESIDENT HOOVER DEEPLY GRIEVED . . . BONFILS MADE POST A GREAT PAPER. . . . COLORADO HAS LOST ITS GREATEST CITIZEN. There were six more pages of pictures and testimonials...
...night some missing Navy flyers were found in the Pacific, he wrote the eight-column banner himself: BLESS GOD! THEY'RE SAFE! He scorned foreign news on the front page. Said he: "A dog fight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." He noisily offered the late Calvin Coolidge the job of editor at $75,000 a year. He permitted the picture of his daughter Helen to appear on the front page of the society section over the caption...
...rumors that Premier Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito recently "affronted" Emperor Hirohito by speaking out of turn and ahead of His Majesty at the Imperial New Year's Banquet. In or out of turn, what Premier Saito spoke was a eulogy of his Emperor, yet zealots of the Imperial Banner Immortality Association began to distribute a "proclamation" which many a Japanese considered a death threat to Saito...
...Soviet taxes (proverbially heavy). They receive an inalienable monthly stipend from the State, ride free on Soviet tramcars, busses, trains, steamers, airplanes. Russia's new State Prosecutor, plodding Comrade Andrei Vyshinsky, who has yet to make a really big mark, received last week the Order of the Red Banner, still has to pay railroad, steamship and airplane fare but not carfare...