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...Vile worm!-oh madness! pride! impiety...
With this for a starter, The Hat tore into the Governor and all local tickets (except his own, headed by No Deal Party man Newbold Morris), hurled the name "politician" as though it were a vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
Patton called the press in for a retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...
Berlin's City Council (of whose five key members three are Communists) decreed the confiscation of all property owned by Nazis and "all other persons who took an active part in the propagation of Naziism, who committed vile acts against others" or made profits from the Nazi regime. Purely personal belongings were exempted; businesses, houses and lands were presumably affected. Since the Nazis had bought up, confiscated or controlled most German business and industry, this decree was equivalent to a nationalization of property. Said the Berlin radio: "The importance of the decree is likely to reach far beyond Berlin...
...bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...