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...Pendleton Herring, instructor in Government: "Special Interests and the Federal Bureaucracy...
Lolloping about in the waters off Liverpool, N. S. last week, an enormous tuna noticed a scrap of herring, snapped it up. Inside the herring was a hook which sank into the tuna's bony...
...sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." The charge was manslaughter...
...already drastic enough to penalize honest men for mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last January. On the list, between one order approving the destruction of 99 boxes of wormy dressed herring and another assessing a $25 fine for shipping canned razor clams in too much brine, was a third order signed by R. G. Tugwell, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. This case concerned a shipment of "canned grapefruit juice and canned orange juice, sample cans of which were found to contain less than...
...they are nothing"), Mencken tramps into their jealously guarded sanctuaries and lays about him manfully with his 19th Century rationalist flail. Like its predecessor, Treatise on Right & Wrong purports to be an historical and comparative outline of human ethics; as before. Author Mencken is constantly distracted by the red herring of the Christian Churches. "All the branches of Christianity suffer by the fact that they seem to be unable to take in the greatest contribution of the modern world to ethical theory, to wit, the concept of a moral obligation to be intelligent. . . . Its moral system remains an easy...