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...fortunes improved: he built a $30,000 house in Lake Charles (population now: 30,000), fathered a son and a daughter. Settling-up time had come for the Long machine. A photographer from the New Orleans' States got a picture of a State University truck being used to haul building supplies to the half-built house of the wife of a Long machine-man - and the States's fighting editor, 64-year-old Jim Crown, had libel-proof evidence of the graft that every body knew was going on. As his disclosures were followed by a Federal investigation...
...program sensibly admitted that some temporary emergency farm policy must be devised to meet the problems of surplus and disparity, then charged that the New Deal failure was in placing emergency policies, "not economically sound for the long-haul," on a permanent basis...
...make the uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
...Uncovered $476,573,129 in income-tax deficiencies. Last year's haul: $39,000,000 -a profit to the Government of $30 for every dollar spent...
...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...