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...cruncher came when a group of eight Senators offered an amendment to lop a cool $197 million off the bill. The amendment's chief promoter was Nevada's George W. Malone, a former prize fighter who had made a one-man survey of Europe in an airplane. He had found, he said, that in some cities U.S. relief supplies were being sold on the open market...
...eight men, France's labor troubles last week brought a few more days of life. They were murderers, condemned to die by the guillotine. The official executioner, Jules Desfourneaux, went on a one-man strike and refused to execute them. Desfourneaux was holding out for a 15% raise and a bonus for each severed head...
...current" number of the one-man, leftish magazine Politics, which had valiantly striven to come out monthly, was already several months late. And it wasn't ready yet. So, in a "personal letter to 2,500" subscribers, Yaleman ('28) and Editor Dwight Macdonald gave them a frank explanation...
...Politics has a long and dishonorable tradition of coming out late, but the present lag is something special. . . . There is only one reason for it: Politics has been a one-man magazine, and the man (myself) has of late been feeling stale, tired, disheartened, and-if you like-demoralized...
...performed in New York's Town and Carnegie Halls, appeared in the only one-man USO show overseas, recorded nine albums of ballads, and is currently on his third tour of the United States...