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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Lawrence's promises were largely forgotten in post-War "realistic" diplomacy and the half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...
Probably the most powerful single post in any U. S. Protestant church is that of Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. "Stated" or settled in his post, the Clerk nominally holds office for five years, but the terms of the last two, Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts and Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, totaled 56 years. At the annual Assemblies of the church, the Moderator (elected for one year) presides, but between times the Stated Clerk, resident in the "Presbyterian Vatican" in Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church...
...Kansas City shakedown was not notably different from the small-time racketeering in many U. S. cities. Typical, too, was the comparative apathy of the victims -employers and employes-and the police. But in the office of the Kansas City Journal-Post, a body of evidence was accumulating. The Journal-Post has the doleful distinction of having been the first U. S. paper to mention the availability of Alfred Mossman Landon as a Presidential candidate. Six weeks ago, the Journal-Post finally completed its pipeline into the racketeering sewer, gushed forth the story. It gave evidence of unpunished vandalism...
...hours later, a taxi drew up at a street intersection in the Plaza district of Kansas City, Mahan stepped out and gave himself up to waiting police. At week's end, former Labor Leader Mahan was arraigned on ten charges, held in $8,500 bail. The Journal-Post, satisfied that window-smashing was over, prepared to expose other rackets. One thing it wanted explained was why Kansas City gambling joints scrupulously served no liquor, while liquor joints scrupulously allowed no gambling...
...Call-Bulletin, Chronicle, Examiner, News (San Francisco); Post-Enquirer, Tribune (Oakland...