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Died. Belle Lindner Israels Moskowitz, 55, good friend & adviser to Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime publicity director for the New York State Democratic Committee; of complications following a fall down her front steps last month when she broke both arms; in Manhattan. A practical idealist, she plotted Smith's political rise, accepted no public office from him, earned Tammany Hall's hatred for her influence. When Smith's shot...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...
...personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
Editor Shepard at present occupies a cluttered office in "John Martin's House," on the 14th floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story...
...assassination of Signor Mussolini, $5,000 for Crown Prince Umberto, lesser amounts for members of the Grand Fascist Council. He said he had no personal fondness for assassination, but found that the bombing business enabled him to support his mistress in luxurious style. Sbardellotto professed to be an idealist, announced that he was carrying on the work of the executed Michele Schirru. He said he had been chosen to kill the Premier by lots cast in Brussels. Had Signor Mussolini not dropped out of the procession, said he, "I would have done...