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...circus is here again. With Mme. Costello's record run forgotten, along come the Millen boys with a brand new show. The machinery of American justice is dusted off, set up and bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...
...established somewhere in the North for the purpose of training intelligent and devoted young men and women for work in the cultural and religious wilds of the deep South. . . . Perhaps our expensive personnel could be withdrawn from the foreign field (where the natives are losing interest in our brand of salvation, anyway) and used for this work. The conversion of Mississippi or Arkansas, say, ought to be just as pleasing to God as the plucking of some Chinese province from the burning, and will probably involve a good deal more sacrifice and suffering...
...Afraid to Let His Dreams Come True. But during Depression the number of such fearful men grew so great that Rolls-Royce sales since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract...
...California secretly controls two small companies. Signal Oil & Gas of Delaware and Signal Oil & Gas of California, while Associated controls smallish Seaside Oil Co.; 2 ) these subsidiaries, while posing as competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline to the public under a different brand at drastically reduced prices in order to squeeze out independents. Terming this ''the most vicious price cutting war in oil history," the grand jurors carefully fixed $1,000 bail for defendants-after they are arrested. If convicted under the oil code they face $500 fine on each count. Standard...
Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word...