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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to come back again except under arrest. . . . Goodby, gentlemen." With this astonishing defiance of the U. S. Congress, the oldtime country doctor clapped on his sailor straw, turned his back on the committee, marched out of the room and into a waiting taxi which whizzed him out of sight. Martyr or Fool? Too dazed to move for a few minutes, the committee finally pulled itself together, had the room cleared, went into executive session. Hour later it was announced that the committeemen had voted unanimously to recommend that Dr. Townsend be cited for contempt of the House. After...
...Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the cameraman as more important than the camera. Last week such individuals watched with interest the latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions of things seen & heard, it has a cumulative effect less personal than Sheean & Co., more sharply focused than Mark Sullivan, more impressive than either. Ticketed as a literary critic, Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson a few years ago found his position too academic...
...lived a useful and active life until the end." Of her late mate's guardians, says Mrs. Lowe: "Our Government in Washington is the best organized and greatest band of super-gangsters and criminals on earth. They stop at nothing where there is a dollar in sight...
Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...
...herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other at sight, while Dr. Ritter held philosophically aloof. The Baroness called herself Empress of Floreana, planned to build a hotel and make the island into ''a sort of Miami...