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...battered Tammany machine, and from the antis-anti-LaGuardia, anti-New Dealers-a vote whose total is problematic. If Grover Whalen wins it will be an historic election. It will mean the end of Tammany as the machine in New York City politics. Barbaric conquerors from the provinces will tramp through Tammany's proud hall. But if LaGuardia wins. Tammany Hall may as well be torn down...
...hunting. By last week the search was costing $250,000 a day. The battleship Colorado hove to off the Phoenix Islands, catapulted three planes from its deck. The flyers skimmed over Gardner and McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing the propellers and forcing the flyers to climb. Some days equatorial squalls and vanishing visibility crippled the hunt, but on others the weather was perfect, visibility unlimited. By week's end the Colorado's planes had scanned more than 100,000 square...
...Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied by the tramp, the Irishman and the Jew remained about the same. But as additional burlesque houses opened all over town, desperate competition was expressed in the increasing nudity of the dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month the New Gotham Theatre in Harlem reached the inevitable when four of its strippers were...
Time flew, and the world became wider and crueler. Over a bottle of cheap ale Griffin sat with a mawkish tramp...
...guts?" Potato Jones put out to sea to run the blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao but Alicante. Before he could reach it another British tramp, the Seven Seas Spray, had already run the gantlet and warped to a Bilbao pier, after having been halted, then wished unofficial Godspeed by a British destroyer. Reported her Captain, W. H. Roberts...