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...vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...
...order to remove necessity of your voting today I have consented to decide outcome of New York, Boston, and Cambridge elections. In New York the Seabureezes will blow La Guardia into office over Religious Joseph and the Sea Lion of City Hall. In Cambridge they're busy Russelling up votes to keep from being Lynched out of office, but present mayor will be given additional chance to close Quincy Street...
...Japan's next war, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
...President was silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success of Mr. LaGuardia, behind whom the large part of New York's civilized voters were aligned. Now he is attempting a dignified exit. But he lost a great opportunity to strike a blow for decent municipal government, and if Dr. O'Brien remains in power, New York will remember his failure...
...that violent Comedian Philip Loeb, gives Wintergreen the notion of starting a Blue Shirt revolution when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution...