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...onetime (1921-23) Governor of Georgia. A fat-faced, roly-poly little man in horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days the U. S. Government provided an official soundboard from which outraged foes of Nazidom could vent their indignation against Hitlerite Germany. Some revelations pried out of pro-Nazi witnesses...
...Allen's best-selling Only Yesterday. Cinematically it examines the state of the Union since 1917. These are some of the scenes of the nation's follies and accomplishments in the past 15 years: Front pages screaming WAR. Women knitting, soldiers tramping, Charlie Chaplin selling Liberty Bonds. Swat the Kaiser. Kill the Hun. Ships, ships, ships. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." The Armistice. The boys come marching home, and the men go marching out of mines and factories suddenly idle. A Paterson police chief, fat and funny, directs his men as they throw women textile workers into a patrol...
...Mancini, who held Dunster to six hits, and hit a home run in his own turn at the plate. The final score was 12-11. In the other game the bellboys trounced Kirkland to the tune of 16 to 6. The outstanding feature of this tilt was a circuit swat by Fox of Kirkland...
...fight against the fly has not let up. The Iowa State Department of Health is urging citizens to "swat the fly early and kill THREE MILLION AT A BLOW." In New Haven Health Officer John Levi Rice says: "The only place where a fly has any value is on the end of a fish line...
Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, "Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team," Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing's staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward...