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Further treading on the industry's toes, Dancer Douglas politely explained that the Met was "not singled out as a culprit," that other mutual companies employ the same "election machinery." The swing session was then adjourned until this week, and Bill Douglas journeyed to Manhattan to speak before the annual dinner of Fordham University alumni, there cut some verbal capers of his own: "The convenient and impersonalized use of the corporate device has unquestionably contributed to moral decadence. This has especially been true with the growth of bigness. . . . Individual responsibility before God has no counterpart in the corporate system...
...first two weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...
Said the prosecutor in Salisbury County police court last week: "It may take 1,000 years for Stonehenge to regain its old weathered appearance." Said the court: $5 fine for each culprit, costs of trial and repairs, total $95. Said the commander at Larkhill, keeping a straight face: official reprimand...
Last week the sleuths caught a culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...
Theodore M. Olesen, Jr., confessed culprit in the Peabody Museum looting, will be indicted by the University today before the Middlesex County Grand Jury...