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...political administration, substituted the old-fashioned spoils system for most State offices. ("It has been said many times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...
Frustrated civil-service advocates promptly asked Circuit Judge Clyde I. Webster in Detroit to declare 1) that "Lieutenant Governor Dickinson" has no legal claim to be Governor, 2) the civil-service wrecker was unconstitutional, illegally signed by a nonexistent Governor. Their grounds: the State constitution provides 1) in the event of the Governor's death or incapacity, the Lieutenant Governor shall serve "until the disability ceases," 2) the Governor shall fill vacated offices by appointment. One William P. Long of Detroit maintains that Luren Dickinson should have taken the gubernatorial office, then ended the "disability" by appointing another...
...Glenn expelled from the Party for questioning decisions, Comrade Silverstone steals Glenn's mistress. Glenn's final disillusionment comes in Spain, where he goes to fight with the Loyalists. Again Comrade (now Commissar) Silverstone pops up, this time contrives to get Glenn arrested as a "Trotskyist-Bukharinist wrecker...
...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...
Soviet justice has not been making much of a world reputation for itself lately. Significantly, the leading Moscow expert on Communist jurisprudence, Eugeni Pashukanis, was denounced by the official press last week as "a wrecker, a traitor and a betrayer of the Fatherland...