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...gambling racketeers who resented having the most criminal city in the U. S. publicized as a sudden convert to law & order. The bombers' technique appeared to derive from a style of bombing inaugurated last autumn by the Chicago Association of Candy Jobbers, whose methodical representatives found little to deter them from pitching "pineapples" (hand grenades) into independent goody factories...
During speechmaking, the room was darkened and spotlights played on a life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
...Though she can comprehend the nature and consequences of her acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing...
...took a poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter a weak-willed person from suicide. Specific mention of "a bathroom germicide" warns housekeepers to keep their household poisons in well-locked cupboards...
...Secretary of Commerce Hoover, after warning that all flood control estimates were guesswork so far, last week guessed that the program would be managed for 20 or 30 millions per annum for 10 years. These costs, he thought, should not deter tax reduction. š Arbitration commissions established by treaties with Britain and France...