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...failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest to the com mittee in which he claimed the inquiry was "a purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat [Senator Carter Glass] and a Boston Representative under Roman Catholic domination [George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus beyond Congressional jurisdiction...
...Coleridge numbered among ways of idleness reading magazines and spitting over bridges. Today he would have added going to the pictures and listening to the wireless. The British Broadcasting Com pany does magnificent work, but it is a form of idleness if we make funnels of our ears without making intellectual effort...
...Back home! Back home!" shouted Laborites loudly in the House of Com mons last week. They were jeering terrier-like Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, who rose from their ranks and strode defiantly across to the Opposition benches. Close behind him was the whip of his New Party, Dr. Robert Forgan...
...call public attention to the new policy of conciliating the technical experts of the old regime who have been persecuted for so many years as "bourgeois intellectuals," the Central Executive Com mittee issued decrees of clemency to five Damagers, bourgeois engineers who had been convicted of sabotage, gave them cash prizes of $5,000 to $500, restored them to full citizenship "for having repented of their former sins and shown their repentance by a year's conscientious work...
...currently to be seen at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. Not only are they to be seen but they may be addressed, touched, played with, danced with by lonely female guests of the Ambassador. They are gigolos, frankly hired by the hotel to stimulate trade, under the com mand of Mrs. Erma Hubbell, the Ambassador's ''social executive...