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...march of bonus-seeking veterans on Washington ended in an ill-tempered whiff of tear gas that embarrassed the Army's orderly Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want...
...landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...
...best capacity, from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than a million this week, Monte Bourjaily perceived that he had missed the market that was waiting for a U. S. pictorial weekly. Last week he announced that he would give Midweek Pictorial not death, but a whiff of anesthetic. He would discontinue its publication until such time as he could "give it a new dress and format...
Rounding out the second month of its methodical exploratory tour of the U. S. investment trust business ordered by Congress, the Securities & Exchange Commission figuratively arrived last week in Boston. In so doing, it unearthed not one whiff of scandal, received for a change an instructive lesson in safe money management...
Young John cut his literary milk teeth on Marryat, got from Masterman Ready such an inviting whiff of the sea he once considered going to Annapolis. He remembers being carted around a good deal by his travel-loving parents-to Mexico, Belgium, England, to Washington, and tidewater Virginia. In England he had a year at a private school, afterwards prepared for Harvard at the Choate School. At Harvard, where he was in the same class (1916) with Authors Robert Nathan and Robert Littell, he wrote for the literary magazines but was distinctly not one of "Copey's" (Professor Charles...