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...Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, said the report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...
...afternoon in Tokyo. Last week at these simultaneous hours, in these respective capitals, the foreign ministers of three great nations announced that at last they were honoring China by raising their diplomatic representatives in Peiping from ministers to ambassadors. But Chinese were not to be fooled by any hocus-pocus of the diplomatic clock. They rendered thanks, not to Britain, not to their traditional friend the U. S., but to their recent enemy Japan. For Secretary Hull's State Department, though it might rise at 3 a. m. to issue an announcement, still slumbered at the diplomatic switch...
...last week, candidates of the End Poverty In California party took a terrific beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare...
...simple a document as a questionnaire or registration card realizes that a fairly large number of men make mistakes even on that. Still greater, then, is the chance of a goodly number of undergraduates misreading so long a statement. On the score of frankness, a bit less hocus-pocus about "not reporting absences" and a little more frankness about "permitting cuts" would add to the force of the document without changing the action of the students...
...dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience. The Black Cat is the work of Director Edgar Ulmer. Silly shot: the Black Mass, with Karloff intoning Latin gibberish...