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...concerns buy them favorable publicity from almost every news organ they care to patronize. When the Tugwell-Copeland pure food and drug bill, demanding honest advertising, comprehensible analyses of each product on every label, was introduced in Washington early last December, the machine set to work to picket its trough. They were so successful that many of the magazines and newspapers in which they took space to ballyhoo their panaceas actually backed them in their concerted attack against this measure. From appeals to the rights of man as stated in the Constitution to tearful notes to General Johnson claiming that...
...more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled at having their snouts kept out of the public trough by their rivals that they let out a loud and agonized howl and gave away the whole business...
...downs, Adolf Hitler at last sat atop the German Totalitarian State, but Hitler lost Man of the Year stature as the result of the wave of international resentment and boycott he fomented by his hysterical anti-Semitic campaign. And Hitlerism had yet to lift Germany from its economic trough. Possibly Italy's Benito Mussolini will be 1934 Man of the Year when his new Corporative State begins to show results...
Meanwhile the weather was playing a different set of tricks over Labrador. There a high pressure area created an atmospheric trough down which whistled a dry northeast storm right across the path of the oncoming hurricane. The northeaster smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes...
...Jolly John and his crowd continue to play ball with the administration, and both parties find room in the trough. Meantime a series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends...