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...highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised a man's absence from home to burglars and gossips. Well aware of its increasing calibre as a political liability, the Legislature...
...good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act fame. For two days the wheat waved to & fro while the ballots were counted. The result: though all the rest of the Langer ticket won, Mr. Lemke won, and Neutrality's Nye squeaked...
...reply to Arthur Morgan next day was quiet little Harcourt Morgan. He deplored the fact that, whereas Dr. Arthur's original charges "have been generally understood ... to be charges of personal financial dishonesty and corruption," only now, three months later, were they known not to be charges of graft. "During these many weeks a heavy cloud has rested on Mr. Lilienthal and myself, as well as the entire staff of TVA. . . . The most painful experience that I have suffered in nearly 40 years of connection with public undertakings...
Steve Madey's phenomenal pitching spelled victory for the Elephants. Leo Demeter, Captain and shortstop, and Jack Lee, first base, starred for the winners. Jerry Graft pitched for the Goldcoasters, who didn't score until the final stanza...
Latest socio-poetic graft that Poet MacLeish has produced is Land of the Free, in which he top-works his poetry on to the art form of the news-picture magazine. In this book, 88 photographs of U. S. landscape and people (taken independently of Poet MacLeish, and mostly for the Resettlement Administration) are "illustrated" by a running verse commentary in which Poet MacLeish says his say about a sweet land whose liberty, for many of its inhabitants, went sour...