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Texas Democrats proceeded to write in a fashion beyond the blackest dreams of old politicos to whom Amateur O'Daniel was a radio freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll...
These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...
Sympathetic indeed was Franklin Roosevelt to the railroads last week, and hardly a day went by without his active attention to the problem. As the roads gloomily revealed that car-loadings last week were lower than for the same week in 1932 when Depression was at its blackest, the President called a Cabinet meeting where he was reported to have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided...
...spite of war talk and a crisis in the British Cabinet, prices in stock-markets throughout the world rose hopefully last week. Commodities and bonds were also bullish. Even in Paris,where the news was supposed to be blackest, the Bourse displayed substantial advances in all classes of security...
...story of America's blackest journalistic episode-a Chicago circulation war which cradled gangsterism over 30 years ago-has never been documented so damningly as it apparently was last week in Author Burton Rascoe's answer to the $250,000 libel suit filed against him and Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live...