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Greatly agitated by such general talk of misconduct, Chairman Brundage loudly deplored "this unpleasant affair," took a final fling at Mrs. Jarrett: "At the second [committee] meeting more than an hour was devoted to ascertaining the facts as to reports that Mrs. Jarrett, occupying a room with two young swimmers, could not be aroused by the team's physician and the ship's doctor...
...take appropriate action" (i. e. prosecute under the anti-trust laws) against steel companies as the result of findings by the Federal Trade Commission that Secretary Ickes had been getting collusive bids on steel piling-an action which was shortly followed by Mr. Ickes taking a separate fling at the steel industry for failure to comply with the orders of the Labor Board...
Finally, on payment of another fine, and because Ralegh convinced the King that there was gold in the hills of Guiana, he was freed and allowed to fit out his last, most disastrous expedition. Ralegh was 64 when he took this final fling at fate. Everything went wrong. Though he leaned over backward to keep from embroiling himself with the Spaniards, his men were attacked by them, his son killed. In revenge, while Ralegh lay sick aboard his ship, his men stormed and sacked a Spanish town. Yet they found no gold mine...
...course of feeding doughnuts to cab horses and leading a "back to nature" movement along the main stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being...
With this fling at his Party's Old Guard, the Presidential candidate became once more the Borah of long ago, the defender of the Constitution, the enemy of Monopoly...