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...Touhy's old bumping-off grounds on Chicago's North Side. Here was the ideal hangout: cheap hotels, row on row of furnished apartments, a floating population of clerks, barkeeps, nightclub entertainers, girls with no visible means of support. And Touhy and Banghart were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of other public enemies before them: they stayed out of the nightspots, kept away from their old underworld friends...
Another difference between the newspaper and magazine limitations was that the newspaper quotas were based on net paid circulation and the magazine quotas were based on tonnage paper use. This means that magazines which loaded the stands with copies (taking a heavy percentage of unsold returns to avoid missing any sales) may now take most of the cut out of their returns. But those magazines which rationed newsdealers closely and took few returns will really feel the pinch...
...face the dilemma which always faces distinctively Christian bodies. We must ... not confine ourselves to uttering mere platitudes. We must . . . avoid seeming to put the authority of Christ and His Church behind political and economic schemes which, however laudable in purpose, may be presently impracticable. . . . Actually, I believe that Christ was the great realist. ... He did not propound specific reforms and advocate specific revolts. But what He taught operated as political and social dynamite, because those that believed His word were forced to adopt a revolutionary attitude toward the social and political systems under which they lived...
Michaux disciples must avoid "rum, rowdy women, slot machines and big talk." But excitement is provided them at the Elder's services. "That was a great mass meeting we had this morning, pilgrims," says the Elder when his congregation has really cut loose. "You can always tell when the Holy Ghost and fire come down. I got burnt this morning myself...
...selection of the Indiana liberal was a telling blow to the Robert Taft, Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon school of Old Guard conservatism. It came as a popular reaction against a policy that had cooly managed to avoid action during the early depression, that had humiliated the party in 1936, and had risen to hamstring preparedness. Clearly, the obstructionist conservatives were on the outs with the popular interests of the party, still the die-hards had fight left in them and set to work preparing for the second round...