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Such weapons brought into attack against the "Reds" are not only illegal in spirit, as the Columbia professors point out, but are sharpened on both sides. Nothing would better please the agitator than to supply him with such graphic examples of "capitalistic oppression". Let Mr. Whalen beware lest he throw Brother Rabbit right into the briar patch where he can shout taunts in earnest at the blue-coated cossacks...
Although the cohorts of Grover Whalen have had little success in solving the riddle of "who killed Arnold Rothstein", Paramount has advanced a neat solution of the whole mystery. "The Street of Chance", now current at the Uptown is based frankly upon the known facts of the Rothstein murder with a mixture of adduced facts and some love interest added thereto in order to make a presentable movie plot...
Last week New York taxi tension increased when Luxford Taxicab Co. announced that it would soon have 1,000 Ford cabs on the city streets, would charge only 15 cents per mile. Fearing violent taxi warfare, Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen who licenses all cabs and drivers interrupted his Florida fishing to telephone a stern prohibition against the new cut rate...
...district attorney urged his hearers against acting as the masters of the public instead of as their servants. The officer who bullies motorist is prejudicing a future junior against the poli may testify before him. In Whalen's words, "he is not sell Police Department to the publi...
...unknown champion has arisen, a veritable Whalen, who declares that when Boston celebrates her 300th anniversary, eating establishments which openly display the brass rail, sawdust and an oyster-bar, barbaric symbols of a bygone age, will remove the same or be relieved of their licenses (see the Boston Herald, the Chief of Police or Ezekiel 23). Frequenters of such landmarks as the Loch-Ober Cafe and Jake Wirth's will be delighted to know that these historic features which have so often influenced their baser natures in the past, are to be relegated to the scrap heap...