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...publishers have cooperated in efforts to eliminate false advertising, but they view with alarm the Government's "using the term 'false advertising' as a mask with which to cloak a very evident desire to restrict or prohibit all advertising or to subject it to Government control...
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West...
...flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...Claims are easily made, easily written, easily read and just as easily dismissed. The fancy phrases and the shimmering adjectives used in framing claims often close the mind to truth and cloak the facts, giving an aura of reasonableness to empty conclusions. So, again I say, forget claims, son. Investigate impartially and thoroughly; approach the problem from ALL sides and then decide...
...Dukhobors are a Russian religious sect best known for their tendency to shuck off their clothes and parade naked through startled towns on the Canadian prairies. Less readily do Dukhobors shed the cloak of secrecy and deception in which they have hidden their affairs from a world they fervently mistrust. In Slava Bohu, Canadian Journalist J. F. C. Wright strips them down for good...