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...went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish behavior both on & off the House floor that...
...will deny that the tradition of lynch law is the most disfiguring scab on the face of the United States. It comes with the moronic level of intelligence of an infuriated mob. Slow education in reverence for legal procedure can alone remove the curse. A self-righteous and strong-arm policy on the part of the Washington government can have no other outcome than inflaming an already irritated section of the country. There are already encouraging indications of the Costigan-Wagner bill floundering under the weight of its own quixotism...
...Nazi bigwigs. That the head of Simple Richard Roiderer was still upon his shoulders, after ten months in the fog of Nazidom's New Justice, was recently ascertained and he was brought from Munich to Berlin with a cut over his left eye and a large, reddish scab on the bridge of his nose...
...with their hands up; who have never shot a horse or seen hooves smash a head; who never have sat a horse and been shot at or stoned; who never have been cracked on the head with a club nor have thrown a brick; who never have seen a scab's forearms broken with a crowbar, or an agitator filled up with compressed air with an air hose; who, now it gets more serious-that is, the penalty is more severe-have never moved a load of arms at night in a big city; nor standing, seeing it moved...
Last week came the day to open Old Forge schools for another year. Almost the only teachers to show up at school were the 24 newcomers. "Scab teachers!" growled miner fathers, and kept their children home. "Scab teachers!" shrilled miner mothers as they rushed out to pull hair, scratch faces. "Scab students!'' yelled football players, happily pummeling nonstriking pupils. Up & down the streets marched strikers and sympathizers with flying banners...