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...unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted form of government that makes such tactics a necessary asset to the aspiring leader. And how morally strong, moreover, must the person be who never allows the means to taint his ends and how closely associated the two usually become. In this past election, of course, it must be remembered there were other factors which influenced the results but in the respects pointed out above it was similar to those expressions of public opinion that have been made for many decades...
...first page editorial: "The incident marks a climax in a series of political maneuvers that have embarrassed and handicapped the Bureau of Mines under this Administration. . . . It is a technical Bureau. Its Director and personnel should be selected primarily for technical qualifications . . . should be kept free from the obvious taint of political patronage ... if the Bureau of Mines is to escape still further indignity and disintegration...
...unwholesome taint hung last week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
...Club as an instrument to forward their own pet schemes. These beliefs are fostered by the diverse political complexion of the Club's membership, ranging from these who would pursue political will o' the wisps to those who wish to carry out a constructive political program free from the taint of the soap-box- orator...