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...FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...
France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries having this class of treaty. All countries outside this category must pay duty in conformity with the new law. U. S. businessmen, petulant, were in-clined to see deliberate discrimination in the new tariff against them in favor of the Reich...
...since you saw fit to call him "a large black fly in the ointment" [TIME, July 18] have you seen fit to mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement...
...perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening for him in the Quartier Latin. Newsgatherers made life hard for Hero Chamberlin by treating Hero Levine, politely yet distinctly, as a large black fly in the ointment. Mr. Levine was a civilian and owed his place in the sun to being a shrewd, adventurous moneybags. His omnipresence in a company of aeronauts was grotesque, obtrusive, they hinted. They plagued Pilot Chamberlin until he admitted that he had unwillingly taken certain orders from Mr. Levine, that...
...pace that is breathless and occasionally incoherent the author pours out a mass of material which should fascinate the materialist and terrify the romantic. Witches, it seems, did not fly picturesquely through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things...