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Spunky Newfoundlanders, famed for the free & easy way they have of pummeling an unpopular premier and smashing furniture in their Government Offices when aroused, were scathingly told by a Royal Commission last week that in Newfoundland "a continuing process of greed, graft and corruption has left few classes of the community untouched by its insidious influence...
...years ago Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards discovered a heavy hydrogen in liquid hydrogen distilled at 466° below zero Fahrenheit. Its atomic weight was 2.0136. Later Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California following a method devised by the Bureau of Standards' Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, produced 99.5% pure heavy hydrogen. Water containing this heavy hydrogen kills guppy fish, tadpoles, worms. Probably it is poisonous...
...Honest officials using honest methods are Boston's only salvation. Young men, college students and graduates, are greatly needed to help clean up the corruption and graft in present day politics. Young blood, with new ideas, would promote the general welfare...
...absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction of Havana's waterworks. Finally Inquisitor Pecora himself dammed up the flood of epistolary candor, suppressed one paragraph and a whole memorandum because ''it might lead to acts of violence in Cuba...
...make a living out of heroism become cynical. Graft-ridden China was too tempting for Hero Hall. Soon Chinese officials sued him in San Francisco for $100,000 they claimed they had given him to buy airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed...