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...Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain letters bear some resemblance, have been held by courts to be illegal lotteries. It is hoped the recipients of letters will in their own interests refuse to take part in the schemes, which at best are a snare and delusion and at worst provide a scope for dishonest exploitation of credulous members of the public...
...cost claimed to be $200,000. They applauded lustily when Judge Rutherford referred to the Roman Catholic Church as a "foreign foe" whose head had ordered that Jehovah's Witnesses be crushed; when he declared that "Jehovah has expressly declared the League of Nations a fraud and a snare and it shall be destroyed"; when he reminded them that though Satan's time on earth is up, he "refuses to get out" and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford's rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with...
...should any such thing happen? Labor has called NRA a snare and delusion. General Johnson called it a dead dodo. As a Recovery measure New Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
...most recent attempt to align Harvard University with the progressive tendencies of college administration, the creation of the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while encouraging at first sight, proves on inspection to be but a snare and a delusion...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...