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Aware that their city breeds odd cults, even Los Angeles' orthodox ministers were goggle-eyed last week as they pondered the magnitude of a religious racket which had been uncovered for them. Citizens were being swindled out of at least $1,500,000 a year by "ministers" who had obtained their credentials by mail. Apparently anyone could purchase documents which, so far as the letter of the law was concerned, empowered him to set up a church, perform marriages, officiate at funerals, collect fees from his followers...
While Senator Gerald P. Nye last night scored present methods of national defense as a pure, unadulterated racket and urged the passage of emphatic legislation annihilating war profit, Norman Thomas declared that complete socialization is the only possible means of ending the pressure for armaments...
...annual Japanese war scare comes just before our big army and navy appropriation bills are laid before Congress. The munitions racket plunders the public funds; but when you or I call it plundering, we are told that we ought to be deported, sent back to Moscow...
...Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism, a fact which should go far to silence ill-willed proletarian snarls that the Guggenheim Foundation is a "capitalist racket" conceived to avoid income taxes...
Thirteen years ago a pert, pretty 14-year-old California girl named Marjorie Gladman watched with interest her first tennis match. She thought it "an awfully nice game," coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...