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Dies leaped up with a roar, took the floor in his committee's defense. Afterwards he collapsed, was carried off to the hospital. The cause: strain from overwork. For rewinding his burglar-alarm committee, Congress coughed up $150,000, the largest Dies Committee appropriation...
...that survives in Welsh blood has been responsible for much of the greatest in English poetry. But Author Powys, a professional Wild Welshman (and proud of it), has never got his wildness quite under artistic control. In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged to contemplate: namely, the writhings of a lust-demented lady on the breast...
...Burglar. In Pleasantville, N. Y., a police lieutenant snooping for a grocery store burglar discovered a policeman making off with...
...piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield under...
...questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose...