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...feel, with nearly two million native Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than...
Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...
Missouri's present Legislature, packed with city ward heelers and cracker-box statesmen, has set an all-time record for brazen corruption. Grasping members developed "sandbag" legislation to a fine art, used such bills to shake down businessmen and labor unions for everything from new suits of clothes to folding money. Two Legislators were convicted for accepting bribes; the grand jury which indicted them apologized for not trapping more...
That the blandest, most brazen U.S. Naziphile was out of circulation was good news for the U.S. But even better was the news that bald, bantam-beaked Attorney General Francis Biddle was cracking down at last on U.S. citizens who love the Axis...
...bill was described by the New York Times as "the most brazen sort of class legislation." But, already passed by the House, and due for quick passage by the Senate, it was expected to be signed by the President...