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Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...takes an active, if not leading, part in many movements (unemployment relief, fuel famine, Veterans' Bureau investigation, Merchant Marine development). A great political letter-writer, he keeps three special clerks to handle his mail, works at his office Sunday afternoons. His grammar is good, his pronunciation Bostonian. In private conversation his voice is soft and controlled. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: A good practical politician ("The best Irish vote-getter in the U. S."), a legislator above the average. His political philosophy is liberal and humane, except on economic matters (the tariff) which affect the New England industry...
...foreign" state, grave penalties are to be meted out to a penitent company. The phrase, "one hundred dollar fine" drops lightly form the lips of officers, and falls like a death-knell upon the ears of those unfortunates who now loudly boast their independence of Massachusetts and things Bostonian...
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
Later this summer, Herr Schmeling will probably fight out the world's title inheritance with Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), the glossy, glib, unconvincing Bostonian than whom, for the moment, the U. S. can apparently produce no heavyweight less unsatisfactory...