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Your continual yammering about the "Taft machine" here and the "Taft machine" there, to the glory of smiling, lovable, everybody's friend "Ike," has left a rotten taste in the mouths of thousands of Taft boosters like myself ... If Ike does get the nod in Chicago, he'll know what it is to be up against a machine...
...woman wrote, "I was born and brought up in Cambridge. The police mishandling of students last Thursday night was hardly the first instance of how the politics of this city are rotten and filthy. I say have a check-up from the chief down...
...tree was hollow from top to bottom. For a while, Roger dropped sticks down inside it. No coons came out. Finally-although the opening at the top was only 18 inches across-the boy squeezed himself down inside the tree, bracing his feet against a rotten projection. He hoped to look for coons in a hollow limb part way down. But his foothold broke. Roger slid down 20 feet, stuck momentarily and began sliding again. Skinned, startled and breathless, he landed at the bottom...
Break it they did. But last night's police broke a lot more. They broke the mutual confidence and respect that has so far prevented in Cambridge as much as anything else, the rotten town-and-gown riots that occasionally ignite at New Haven and Providence. They broke a tradition of good-natured understanding that has kept cops and students at far more than billy-club length for a long time. Towards the end, they were egged on by a few students who were inane enough to scale bottles when they should have gone home. But basically, in a bizarre...
Pork & Passports. Why was there practically no opposition when Batista pulled his coup? The basic answer is that seven years of riotously rotten government had left the average Cuban too cynical about democracy to fight in its behalf. When Grau San Martin was swept into office in 1944 on a wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government...