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...indicted, sentenced to Atlanta, were Paul Rabkin and Joseph Y Perelman, onetime Superfine Watch Co. partners, by questioning whom Federal Judge Henry Warren Goddard hopes to arrest more of their associates. Last week he told them: "I don't believe your story. Both of you men have got to unburden yourselves about this entire business...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...surtaxes of the rich man are lightened, the average constituent feels that he (the poor man) will suffer, regardless of the fact that the Government may get more money. The La Follette insurgent group are potent fosterers of this impression. They maintain that to burden the rich is to unburden the poor. The argument has a popular vote-getting appeal. They say that there is a coming soldier bonus that must be paid...
...poor devils are forced to be. We fully appreciate that the vast ideas you get from the psychological study afforded by scores of wrinkled brows and bent forms; but we beg of you to endure your thoughts until the examination is done, and then you may freely unburden your minds. If ludicrous things happen, laugh inside and look serious; your ribs will benefit by the practice...
...invariably dwell upon the temperature of my room, and find myself repeating again and again those expressions of discontent that are apt to proceed from a man who sees before him a blazing fire, but feels around him an intolerable chill. This troubled condition of mind forces me to unburden myself...