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...study the investigators' report and from it, if necessary, prepare impeachment articles. Chairman of this committee was Representative Tipton who, a day after his portentous announcement, brought in his first article with more to follow. Described in a 65-page accusation was a Horton-Lea-Caldwell conspiracy "to commit acts for the personal aggrandizement and pecuniary gain of the co-conspirators . . . and for the purpose of enabling . . . Henry H. Horton continuously to be able to remain in the office of Governor and use the powers and influence of that office for his own advantage, gain and advancement...
...missing their work, a dark privacy for personal grief, a hushed solemnity. But are not pomp and ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect. For both, a burial is a show which the night would shroud and destroy. To most of us the earth is black enough already without darkening the sun on our last journey...
...Author, Consumptive, gaunt Maxim Gorki (Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov) has survived 63 years in spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit...
Near Balboa, Canal Zone, Chief Electrician Leslie W. Burnside of the motor ship Courageous jumped overboard to commit suicide, changed his mind, swam about for twelve hours before the S. S. Sabotawan picked...
...report. Archbishop Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good." (TIME...