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Down a corridor in the Senate Office Building one day last week strode a squat, husky, red-headed Washington newshawk named Robert S. Allen. Outside the big Senate caucus room he spotted a thin, greyish ex-Washington newshawk named Paul C. Yates...
Detroit Times's camera chief is a squat, red-thatched pugnacious Hearstling named Jimmy Northmore. For 20 of his 42 years he has worked for Hearst, boasts that the opposition has never beaten him. Twelve years ago, he says, he had the idea for a fast working camera but did nothing about it until he saw the Tribune's strips. Then he buttonholed the Times's Editor-in-Chief Albert E. Dale, offered to produce a camera that would match the Tribune's pictures for some $900. He closeted himself in his laboratory for three weeks...
Meanwhile four blocks from the General Electric Building there was being proudly displayed last week a squat, flat-roofed prefabricated house which may eventually put the builders of General Electric's prize houses out of business. Since mid-February as many as a thousand persons a day have crowded into the ninth floor corridors of Grand Central Palace to view this latest stepchild of U.S. mass production...
...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
...would doubtless be glad to uphold the abrogation of the gold clauses if they can do so without sacrificing what they regard as vital principles. Several ingenious compromises are, however, open to the Court. Example: By upholding Mr. Cummings' contention that private persons who wrote gold clauses were squatting on the public domain, the Court could void such claims in private bonds but make the Government pay what is nominated in its own bonds, since obviously the Government cannot squat on its own domain...