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Although students of municipal government have long agreed that Philadelphia is afflicted with political dry rot, that its water supply and fire protection are decrepit ("Filtered filth!" the late Mayor S. Davis Wilson said of Philadelphia water), few Philadelphia politicians have ever admitted that anything is wrong with their fair city. But last week Philadelphia's bumbling mayor, Robert E. Lamberton, was forced to sit through two detailed and heavily documented indictments of Philadelphia as a place to live...
Goya's Spain was as rotten and bankrupt a monarchy as Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong...
...extremists began to make an extremely embarrassing noise. Immediate cause was the U. S. loan to China of $100,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 9). An unidentified Japanese, described as "an elderly individual, apparently a religious fanatic." defiled the white gateposts of the U. S. Embassy with two buckets of filth. The Tokyo newspaper Miyako warned: "Cases may arise where Japan is forced to accept the American challenge." On the specific subject of whether Admiral Nomura could smooth U. S.-Japanese relations, militant Koknmin wrote: "Our people should know that relations between the two countries are so hopelessly strained they...
...almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent...
Hague: "You can't . . . put any filth on me. The man doesn't live who dares do that. The man doesn't live who can put a finger on my moral character. He don't live. Or on my political character. He don't live...