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...repealing the pension patchwork of years, the Economy Act permitted the President to divide the wartime sheep from the peacetime goats and pension those with real claims on the U. S. Likewise he was free to hack all civil and military salaries 15%. Next step: issuance of executive orders establishing new pension groups and putting cuts into effect...
Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...
...Eastern students might well take some heed of the Tribune's editorial and at least confine their out of place remarks, incited by false pride, to private discussions. John T. Hack...
...pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until blood streams red as it streamed in Agamemnon's bath...
...President & Mrs. Hoover walked out through a French window to the terrace. "All I can do is thank you for this demonstration of fine loyalty," he said, and again there were tears in his eyes. "A very great man has been defeated," explained Everett Sanders, the political hack who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, was beaten too. "The millions of votes that have been cast for him constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes...