Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted Weiss tooting a tin trumpet in Philadelphia in June 1936, vowing undying loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and, incidentally, plumping down 20 solid delegates' votes, they termed this incident "The Second Louisiana Purchase." (In January 1939, Weiss quietly paid the Internal Revenue Bureau $38,746.10 in back taxes and penalties for the years...
Seymour Weiss was chary of comment last week but hurriedly resigned all of his posts. Yet big as was this Humpty-Dumpty off the wall, it was only one incident in a surging flood of resignations, indictments, dismissals.
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have...
*Mr. Harold Hersey refers to this incident in his book Pulpwood Editor.-H. A. B.
Hot Heads. The Japanese units tangling with the Mongols last week are attached to the famed fire-eating Kwantung Army, the 350,000 crack troops garrisoned in Manchukuo. The "Kwantung clique," headed by War Minister General Seishiro Itagaki and the radical young officers of the Kwantung Army, is a law...