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...Albany, New York State Senators chattered about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...
Outside of Philadelphia, the Chicago Tribune, alert to any & all anti-Red propaganda, printed the letter in full in its "Voice of the People" column, followed next day with an editorial of commendation. Other editors divided about equally in consigning the letter to wastebasket or to type...
Thursday evening, discussing TIME with admiring subscriber, handed kudos to alert editorial staff on unfailing accuracy. Friday morning, studying current issue, faith shattered to read in TIME that ex-Secretary Kellogg resides in Minneapolis. To you, boos, jeers and catcalls on behalf of St. Paul citizens weary of credit-grabbing Minneapolis, claiming St. Paul's great as its own, referring to Kellogg, Attorney General Mitchell. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler as "Twin Cities residents" when referring to these St. Paul citizens in their public prints...
...guess and found it good. To each it had come in a mimeographed letter from Washington, enclosed in a sealed envelope with a 3? stamp. They all were paying $18 per year to receive this and similar information every week. It was the Kiplinger Washington Letter, smartest and most alert of three similar services conducted at the Capital...
...last week at Miami Municipal Airport, had been threatened by Depression. Prize money was reduced, few cups were donated. There was no free gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited the contestants...