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London, Paris, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston all shoot their citizens through tubes in the bowels of the earth as the quickest means of getting them from work to home to work. Chicago, bigger than Paris, Philadelphia or Boston, has eschewed the convenience of subways, kept her citizens where God put them, atop the earth. But Chicago has gone into the bowels of the earth for another convenience that these other cities lack- freight subways. Last week a group of Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic...
Entente? Between his triumph at Paris last week and his expected appearance at Geneva this week, Premier Herriot sandwiched one of the quickest good-will trips on record. As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain. When his train stopped at San Sebastian, eleven miles inside the Spanish frontier, Premier Herriot shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live the Spanish Republic...
Goebbels. Offsetting the ousting of Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when...
...Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe in "lame ducks" continuing to hold office...
...quickest way to get out of Sing Sing is to come in as warden," was the saying in those days. Warden Lawes has stayed twelve years. In that time he has built a new prison, developed sports, introduced, among other things, a flower garden, even a bird house; organized an industrial system that turns out some 70 articles, turns over some $3.000,000 annually. Prison life at best is bad, thinks Warden Lawes, but men are always men. His central idea is to set his prisoners to doing work useful to themselves, instead of simply doing time. Segregation of prisoners...