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...some less undesirable pursuit than Mr. Minsky's. It would surely set a better precedent to take this matter before the properly constituted judicial body than to let it be settled by the mere fiat of the official inquisitor, quite apart from the fact that burlesque is undoubtedly a blot on the fair name of the metropolis...
...dream of becoming Under Secretary of State. Last week Fulgencio Batista was still a hard brown obstacle to that dream. To boss Boss Batista, Sumner Welles would apparently have to do just what Franklin Roosevelt promised not to do on Pan American Day: actively intervene in Cuba and thus blot his great Good Neighbor policy...
Louisiana State, with no blot on its record except a tie with Texas, agreed to play Santa Clara, then the only undefeated, untied major college team in the U. S., for the "national championship" in the Sugar BowL Texas Christian the following week dampened Louisiana State's hopes by beating Santa Clara. Last week in New Orleans, Santa Clara doused them thoroughly by beating Louisiana State, with two touchdowns in the first period, another in the third...
Last summer he published an advertisement suggesting as a G. 0. P. slogan: "Landon Knox Out Roosevelt." On his latest statement, with startling restraint, Banker Nichols simply splashed the FDIC legend with red ink, below the smudge printed: "A Blot On Our Statement...
...broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, he became Ambassador to Turkey, returned home when the German armies collapsed, later represented Germany at the League of Nations, retired in 1931 after 50 years of diplomatic service. Opposed to the present German Government, he considers anti-Semitism a blot on the national honor, reprints a strange letter from Ernst Hanfstäengl, now Hitler's Chief of Press Relations, in which the Harvard-educated Nazi expresses great admiration for Bernstorff and very liberal views...