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...testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal it to get on the jury and send those coons to the electric chair," more were in favor of the approach direct, without...
From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...
...taverns," and gladly contribute to the revenue Income. If the Democrats put through such an imbecile piece of legislation, they will make themselves the laughing-stock of the very young men whom they hope will cast a vote for their party when they reach the theoretically mature and mellow age of twenty...
...irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...