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Wirges also discovered who ran the county machine: Marlin Hawkins, 47, a paunchy, cigar-chomping native son, who is a per sonal friend of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and has been Conway County sheriff since 1950. Another Wirges discovery: after every county election, special election deputies, appointed by Hawkins, carried the ballot boxes to the courthouse (a common practice in Arkansas...
...Bentley's introductory mater is quite illuminating, and happi quite specific in treating the en plays offered. Because of his sonal friendship with the playght, he has had to circumvent dangers resulting from close tification. Narrowly avoiding a ipy tone in places, Bentley suc is presenting a feeling for Brecht's personality, and the result fortunate proportion of biogracal detail and critical comment...
...week's end the Labor and Commerce Departments announced the biggest sea sonal decline in employment for January since 1949. although the drop was accentuated by a late labor census in December that caught many Christmas employees, e.g., students, housewives, not normally included in the total. The result: though employment dropped 1,700,000, unemployment rose just under 500,000. Even so, nonfarm employment in mid-January was still the highest for any January on record. Despite all the talk of an impending bust, it looked as if reports of its imminence were greatly exaggerated...
...agency inspired Gayn with "an almost pathologi cal curiosity about Japan." When Japan had begun its war with China, Domei did its best to keep Mark Gayn, nattered him, tolerated his anti-Japanese tirades in the Washington Post, even had him vaccinated for cholera and smallpox by the per sonal physician of the commander-in-chief of Nippon's Third Fleet. When Gayn finally walked out and became city editor of the anti-Japanese China Press, he received a brusque phone call from the Japanese naval attache, who informed him that he was officially "disvaccinated...
Contrasts. The foreign policies of Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...