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...Moscow, last week, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda almost blew a gasket over George Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. It charged that Messersmith had told American Legionnaires in Buenos Aires that a Russo-American war was inevitable, that he was trying to get Argentines, regardless of "ideology or past sins," into a bloc on the side of the U.S. In his best diplomatese, Ambassador Messersmith denied having made the statements. But Pravda could have saved its breath. If there ever were a Russo-American war, there would be little doubt which side anti-Communist Argentina would...
...Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying...
...tangled up with the police, and by the time the shooting stopped he was dead. So was a detective. Chicago, long accustomed to small-arms fire, paid little heed. But when police discovered that the dead gangster was from Detroit, Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "I'm tired of these hoodlums coming in here from neighboring areas and giving Chicago a bad name...
...remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami ... an apartment ... a suite in New York! . . . Perhaps the mayor does not consider it a blemish that children attend antiquated schools . . . that garbage disposal...
...final report the Consumers' Aid Bureau summed up this matter in a statement in which they accused Snell, among other things, of attempt to deceive by the use of excessive gasket-maker to disguise the damage done to the engine head, by leaving the motor running upon delivery of the car to conceal the fact that he had worn down the battery, by suggesting a "motor-flush" cure-all when the engine still rau poorly after all his repairs, and by "general lack of respect for the intelligence of the customer or her agent...