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...spent $4,000,000 'On Hell's Angels. He was considered somewhat less queer when the picture's profits showed signs of reaching $2,000,000. His personal income, estimated at $4,000 to $5,000 a day, inherited from his father who invented an oil drill, was further augmented by the takings of The Front Page. Observers familiar with the Hughes determination wondered whether he had really decided to abandon Queer People, wondered why he did not hire a cast of legitimate actors who would have nothing to fear from Hollywood's bigwigs...
...eleven he went to the Prussian cadet school at Wahlstatt where fierce-whiskered drill sergeants beat all imagination, all desire for originality out of him, taught him the great military virtues: absolute obedience, perfect loyalty, scrupulous honesty. At 18 he saw his first action in the war with Austria and wrote in a letter to his parents...
Worst Example. The most severely flayed institution housing juvenile prisoners for the U. S. was the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe. For refractory urchins there are twelve black correction cells with a plank to sleep on and no bedding. Other miscreants are put in a "drill crew" which is kept constantly moving around and around the yard, stopping only twice a day for bread and water. At Monroe, investigators found U. S. prisoners severely punished for "not standing at count . . . speaking in dining room . . . laughing in the cell block . . . making loud popping noises with the mouth." One child had died...
...year to India. He spoke to the Gandhites on the eve of their famed salt march. Last month Ohio State students were agitating against compulsory military training. Professor Miller actively supported them and voted with the faculty (83-10-79) to ask the university's trustees to make military drill optional. Soon the State House of Representatives received a resolution calling for an investigation of charges that the agitation was fomented by Communists?even perhaps by Moscow itself. Heartily the faculty reneged, voted 144-10-9 to ask no change in the drill ruling...
Ousted was Professor Miller last week. At first he said that his Gandhite sympathies and his opposition to drill had nothing to do with it, that Julius Stone, board chairman of the trustees, wanted him out "regardless of the wishes of the faculty." Then, confidently, he said: "I am a man who speaks positively and freely on matters, but I am no radical. I have been dropped from the faculty because I have spoken freely...