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...fashionable aviator who flies this, "the swankiest instrument of death"; not to mention the source of this amazing news-item-usually well-posted TIME, it seems almost a sacrilege to suggest that TIME had its leg pulled by an overenthusiastic newshawk, or fell victim to the ways of a wag...
...last week it appeared that from the beginning the Power tail is to wag the dam dog at Bonneville. Not to ship experts or fish experts but to power experts did Franklin Roosevelt go for advice on Bonneville's "incidental" problem. The President's Committee on National Power Policy (created six weeks ago) recommended in its first report that an administrator be appointed for Bonneville to conduct its operations along lines "not incompatible with any national power policy which may ultimately be established...
...wag sent the Digest a telegram which consisted of the word HA! repeated 50 times. The radical New Masses showed a cartoon cop barking into a microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture...
Meanwhile a young Swiss Fascist wag, made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreaths on Swiss Fascist was made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreath on Swiss monuments. He even fooled the Permanent Italian League of Nations Delegate, Signor Bova-Scoppa, who used to be stationed in Addis Ababa. Last week Delegate Bova-Scoppa responded courteously when accosted on the street...
...since she arrived. Such bachelors as Rush Holt of West Virginia and Richard Russell of Georgia have been seen hovering near her desk. As the best-looking Senator whom her colleagues have ever seen, she is shown special consideration on all sides. In the press gallery some ill-bred wag suggested that the parliamentary inquiry most frequently in Senators' minds is: "Will the Senator from Louisiana yield...