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...revolution which experts had to certify as absolutely Grade A. Its authentic qualities of mass upheaval reduced to secondary stature both the government leaders and the revolutionary generals. The Spanish Government, a regime of Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals had emptied the jails of cutthroats to defend itself and swell what could be called "forces of law and order." These forces included an indefinite part of the Army. Other Army units had gone over to generals of loosely Fascist forces in which were scrambled most of the Spanish Foreign Legion, parts of the Civil Guard, peasants whose priests had told...
...Bronx's Boss Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years in the newspaper business, Roy Howard has learned, like a movie hero's wife, how to be an office holder's best pal and severest critic...
...Drake and Penn meets this year. Compared in TIME were the 3,000 entries in the Penn carnival with the 2,000 at Drake. Not mentioned were the hundreds of high school, prep school, parochial school and grade school entries to which the Penn management caters, and which swell considerably its list of entries. Does this make the meet great? Not compared were the results of the respective meets, to most people far more important than the number of contestants. In 14 comparable events, athletes competing at Des Moines, under similar fine weather conditions, excelled those competing at Philadelphia...
...plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced $225,000 off the Bureau's budgetary request...
...mother and father think nudism is swell. It does not keep us out late at night and we have a healthy atmosphere to work in. Of course, my girl-friends think we have orgies and all that, but I never had an orgy yet. ... I am not engaged now but I have been engaged to four men and they thought it was all right for me to be a nudist...