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...record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill in 1908* And, at the hands of a determined little group of Democratic neophytes, he had lost his last shred of standing with his fellow Senators...
...energy must go on being shuffled until no further shuffling is possible and its distribution is completely chaotic. Then the Universe will be a "uniform featureless mass in thermodynamic equilibrium"-a warmish, formless soup of aimless atoms and radiation in which nothing ever happens and Time, having lost every shred of meaning, rolls wearily on to infinity...
...Glass with the undeserved prestige of 'gambling' with a 'prison-convict partner' or for that matter of compounding with the two thieves upon the Cross to sup with them in Paradise. I hope, however, that Paradise will be his destination. There may be left some shred of charity in his heart." No trifling cloakroom squabble was last week's dispute. This time it concerned not only the parentage of the Federal Reserve Act but the question of the very existence of the System it created. For last week President Roosevelt dispatched to his legislative leaders...
...typical U. S. businessmen who abhor, in typical U. S. fashion, the idea of fomenting war for profit. The big arms makers of Europe may not be above such skullduggery, but up to last week Senator Nye's committee had produced no shred of evidence to prove that U. S. arms makers had stooped to such practices...
...waiting car. As they were getting in, machine gun fire mowed down Frank Nash, all three policemen, one Federal agent. Terrified bystanders hardly noticed the killers as they fled from the second largest gangster killing on record.* Not until last month did Federal or State officers have a shred of courtworthy evidence in the Union Station case. Then police picked up a sniveling little gangster named Michael LaCapra, questioned him about the death last July of John Lazia, late first lieutenant of Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Big Tom") Pendergast (TIME, July 23). To their surprise La Capra began talking about...