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...solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart to leave fingerprints and tell-tale cigaret butts around...
...right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause of the Labor pangs...
...Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies, World War veterans, other hastily mobilized vigilantes, the Major drags his suspects before a kangaroo court in the plane plant, makes them confess...
...years ago."*Though his fame is surpassed by few U. S. painters, he has had to support himself by teaching and illustrating. Last week he told of his career in an autobiographical critique of painting.* Gist of his Gist of Art: "That I am alive, it hurts me to confess, does not prove that one can make a living...
...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...