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...long-drawn and emphatic, was in former days on the CRIMSON an expression of disgust and despair. I hope that much survives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God" | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

...woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject to the full, and heighten its significance against a background not of revolutionary violence merely, but of long-drawn social decay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

Fine game for fishermen, the broadbill swordfish frequently runs afoul of sharks. Two years ago Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Swordfish v. Sharks | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Candidate Roosevelt began by announcing (through his manager) that his last-minute choice for permanent convention chairman was Montana's grey, grim Senator Thomas James Walsh, famed Oil Scandal investigator, who presided over the long-drawn convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Chair Fight | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Before closing its long-drawn hearing last week, Senator Borah's subcommittee took a sudden and surprising tack. It wanted to know what the whole country has wanted to know since last summer? the facts surrounding the "deal" which U. S. Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson made with Capone. How much or how little did Judge Wilkerson know about the understanding before it was brought out in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Labor & Crime v. Wilkerson | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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