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...Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered...
Last week the press and one lawyer put the State of Missouri to shame. When the Legislature finally adjourned, they made it plain that the last legislative session was the worst, dirtiest, most brazenly corrupt in Missouri history...
Elsewhere along the Axis there was just as much pother. The Italian press simply parroted Berlin's official statements. Tokyo, on the other hand, showed plainly how puzzled it felt. Japanese papers dug up the dirtiest word they could think of, called Hess an Anglophile because he was born in Alexandria, lived there until he was twelve years old. (Until 1939 his father and mother remained in Egypt.) The land of Bushido (loyalty) could not understand how a man could run out on his boss. If it was all a great big clever Axis plot, the Japanese were...
...strode up to Dubinsky and began denouncing the anti-racketeer resolution as "the dirtiest, lousiest resolution" he had ever seen. A friend of Dubinsky started to argue. Fay swung at him. Fay friends charged, fists flew. A Dubinskyite and Fayster clinched and rolled on the floor. Dubinsky's daughter was thrown to her knees. It was minutes before the battlers were pulled apart. Browne had tactfully vanished at the start of the fray...
...ball, charging like a buffalo across the diamond, sliding into bases head first. The way he cut up ball fields made him the despair of ground keepers; the way he smeared up his uniform by diving at bases and the ball gained him the title of "baseball's dirtiest player...