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Among other horrid, startling things the sheetlet said: "Both Macaulay and Kreuger won the confidence of their governments and then proceeded to swindle their people. They both faked their books and presented such balance sheets, padded with fictitious assets, as best suited their purposes and thus deceived those upon whom they preyed. They were both colossal liars. . . . Kreuger did not believe in an afterlife and was frank and honest about it. Macaulay . . . was a religious hypocrite and therefore differed from Kreuger in this respect only by being more contemptible and more dangerous...
Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...
...While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...
...price of other brands (Corona Perfectos, Bock Panetelas, Villar y Villar, Henry Clay, La Meridiana, La Vencedora, La Carolina) turned out by companies affiliated with American Tobacco Co. Cause of this was not competition of cheaper brands, including American Tobacco's 5? Cremo ("Spit is a horrid word!"), but economies made possible by moving the factories from Havana to Trenton, N. J. Although the Spanish-style factory at Trenton will not be completed for a month, 500 employes have been working in a temporary one, learning the business...
...AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have recently been taken by branch officials of Manhattan's far flung National City Bank...