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...frighten me at all." But California property owners were now thoroughly alarmed. As capital continued to emigrate, bums, panhandlers, tramps and just plain jobless continued to immigrate across the State borders. All over the State Motor Vehicle Department clerks reported an influx of travelers with suitcases or blanket rolls who said they heard there was going to be "plenty of work in California" for unemployed. The State's gamblers had their money on Sinclair. "The gamblers know," observed the EPIC nominee...
...press conventions, City Editor Walker has little patience. "Newspaper men's codes are under their hats, not in the rule books. There are two commandments: do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." On female reporters, Stanley Walker is eloquent. He recites the familiar blanket indictments, "some outrageously prejudiced and others based on sad experience": "They are slovenly in their habits of mind. . . . They won't look up names and facts. The observant editor feels that if they were housewives, the dishes would still be in the sink. They are impolite, screaming for 'service...
...Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, the alarm went out that a naked lunatic was crawling through the fields beside a road, uttering low sounds. On signal police rushed the man, threw a blanket over his head, bore him off struggling to an ambulance. From beneath the blanket, as they drove toward an asylum, came a muffled but coherent voice. Timidly the prisoner explained that his clothes had been stolen while he was swimming, that he had promised to be home at dinner time, that he felt he should not break the engagement...
...were willing to "cooperate" with the new Board. Like Leader Gorman he read victory for his cause in the Winant Board's report (TIME, Oct. 1). It had found working conditions vastly improved under the textile code, had recommended no change in hours or wages, had turned down blanket recognition of United Textile Workers Union. Leader Gorman judiciously let these points pass, pounced with fury on a statement that strikers who had engaged in "lawless violence" would get no jobs back...
Thusly wrote the SHOGOLA ALOBA's concert manager. If the Fogg lays a wet blanket on his approaches, we might perhaps try the Democratic National Convention...