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Loving Arms. In Cleveland, Jessie Crump, arrested for packing a loaded pistol to the marriage-license bureau, admitted that she "was taking no chances...
Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...
...wish to thank TIME [Sept. 24] for taking an interest in my fight against E. H. Crump and his political machine...
...cannot claim to be a government by the people when in some states only those who can spare the $2 for poll tax are allowed a voice in their government. Mr. Crump takes advantage of the poll tax to further his political status...