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...Fascist instrument in Great Britain, and he can see no reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business" is a technical advance safe only under social ownership, and that advance has been operative even more in these countries than in Germany or Italy. Mussolini and Hitler found their work easier through the existence of large peasant classes, and these...
...about his new job.) No. 23 droned on, over Ohio and Indiana farmlands, true on its course of blinking beacons and whining radio signals. At 8:46 p. m. the ground station at Chicago heard the pilot's laconic "Okay.". . . A few minutes later country folk near Chesterton, Ind., 50 mi. southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed...
...them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish...
...entirely a fake. The managers of Columbia Broadcasting's Station WIND, knowing that police were searching a wooded section near Chesterton for the escaped desperadoes, had taken a microphone to the scene and were broadcasting what they could get. Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Troopers spoiled the fun. He arrested the broadcasters and to the Federal Radio Commission dispatched an irate complaint...
...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...