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...have given them a stab in the back...
...From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times, he went on to combine Utica's Herald-Dispatch and Observer, Elmira's Telegram and Advertiser, Ithaca's News and Journal. He fought Hearst in Rochester (where W.R.H. spent $8,000,000 in a hopeless stab at putting F.E.G. out of business), and was himself driven to the ropes in Brooklyn, where he bought the old Eagle in 1929 and shucked it at a loss of $2,000,000 three years later. He never founded a paper, but he bought with an auditor's sure...
...didn't he go? The question can best be answered by the man himself. At Paris, Stevenson could not have spoken for himself without appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...
BOSTON, Dec. 1--William Tasco, 18, of Cambridge, suffered severe stab wounds last night at a dance in a Huntington Ave. hall...
...affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past, of tradition-and man's past is no cleaner than his present. Thus Hamlet, like every man, is in a hopeless plight: stab and kill as he may, he will never be able to right man's original wrong...