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Fortnight ago in Syracuse, N. Y., a postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated...
Frustrated in the Pacific for two months by a parcel of pesky troubles, Pan American Airways last week was pleased to see its famed Clippers again making good news on three separate fronts...
...Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards to do their bidding. Prison had only exaggerated Loeb's un- natural appetites. Day declared Loeb had first given him a job with...
...Because a concern for freedom of speech and civil liberties is part & parcel of whatever variety of belief radical ministers hold, they tingled to a report from the Methodist Federation for Social Service that "Fascist" terror, force, violence and intimidation were on the increase in 1935. Last Sunday all U. S. Unitarian ministers were invited to read and comment upon a "Statement on Civil and Religious Liberties" sent out by the Unitarian Department of Social Relations. The Statement particularly deplored teachers' oath statutes...
...Still another phase of the 'racket' indulged in by certain lay charlatans in the field is the manufacture of elaborate devices for the administration of colonic irrigations. These machines are part & parcel of the systematized skulduggery practiced by this not inconsiderable group of quacks...