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...comradeship and loyalty to our country and to one another and if we can make state enterprise and free enterprise both serve national interests and pull the national wagon side by side, then there is no need for us to run into that horrible, devastating slump or into that squalid epoch of bickering and confusion which mocked and squandered the hard-won victory which we gained a quarter of a century...
...begins in a squalid Pennsylvania mining town. Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino), trapped as the wife of a grimy animal who sleeps in his long underwear, schemes to escape from it all with her pretty, teen-age sister-in-law Katherine (Joan Leslie). The arrival of a team of vaudeville hoofers, Runkel (Jack Carson) & Collins (Dennis Morgan), provides the opportunity. When the hoofers entrain for the next stop, the girls are members of the party-Katherine as Runkel's wife and Helen as boss...
...CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY-Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Author Gardner here makes his annual switch from his lawyer sleuth Perry Mason to his equally nimble-minded California oldster "Cramps" Wiggins, who helps the law understand an apparent suicide in a squalid shack...
Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
...carth to the other. In order to win protection for their investments, business men expanded their political activities from minor forays into the National Congress to a forth-right effort at capturing the whole government. The story of that seizure of power is told in all its squalid splendor...