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ALBERT DE YORE...
...Before relying on public assistance in exterminating the bootlegger, the government would do better to concentrate on securing an adequate supply of fairly priced liquor by rescinding exorbitant taxes and outlawing monopoly profits. Until such time as this is done, Joe and Tony will continue to flourish as of yore at the old stand despite all the expense which the government now designs to lavish on their eradication...
...longer the stinging Harrison of yore, he yielded ground to them, even yielded to Huey Long who baited him as he would have baited ten years ago. Before the Senate rewrite was complete. Senator Harrison had agreed to accept amendments that would turn the House's bill to save $250,000,000 from tax leaks into an out-&-out revenue bill to raise $500,000,000 from U. S. taxpayers...
...others was savin' "Leave off the boom-de-ay-leave it off!" So we put the boom-de-ay to a vote, an' it was six-to-six, hog-tied as neat as you ever see. So. Mr. Editor, you'll have to use yore own jedgment. For mcsself, I'd leave off the boom-de-ay. ARTHUR B. ANDERSON...
...Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done...