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...grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false teeth ... tip of right index finger somewhat mutilated." Few days later Mrs. Crater received a letter: "Your husband is alive and safe. . . . We believe there is something wrong with his head. ... I beg to inform you that unless $20,000 in bills of small denominations is delivered to us per instructions you will see him again only as a badly broken man, both physically and mentally...
...other occupations, there are good, bad and in-different men in public life, and the calibre of the representative depends to a large extent upon the interest and intelligence of his constituency. If the best citizens do not take the trouble either to vote or to inform themselves on issues and candidacies, they have no right to criticize the kind of government which they will get. If men are elected to public office by only a small proportion of those qualified to vote, the majority deserve to be misrepresented. In 1922, for instance, 13 U.S. Senators received less than...
...Damned Disgrace!" As the four tellers approached the Chair to inform the Speaker that Gandhite Brockway had been suspended by a vote of 260 to 24, Teller John Beckett, a Laborite nobody, was seen to whisper to one of his colleagues, was answered by a shake of the head...
...remained for the Dry partisan Christian Century last week to inform its small portion of the reading public that on June 3, in Los Angeles, the Rev. Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie, onetime officer of the Anti-Saloon League, was awarded $150,000 damages against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. All Los Angeles dailies of June 3 and 4 spurned the story, as did most of the news services...
...interest of maintaining the habitual accuracy of statement employed by TIME, I would suggest that your reporters be instructed to inform themselves regarding the accomplishments of the Antiaircraft Artillery before they make further statements concerning the possibilities of defensive gunfire...