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...Wreaths. Last week San Francisco police arrested five men charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Two were painting contractors who had been administrators of a $500,000 union-employer welfare fund; the third was the fund's accountant; another was a contractors' association official, and the fifth a San Francisco saloonkeeper. The welfare fund has been under federal investigation ever since several union members, including Wilson, began questioning its management...
...Republican governors and their staffs are usually too interested in the politics of presidential nominations to spend much time or though on state problems. They have to commit themselves to a limited role for government to please Republican Party bosses and delegates. Besides, they can win a solid national reputation with the help of Time, etc., by looking efficient and beaming while signing bills...
...proper to put on the stand a witness who you know will commit perjury...
...proper to give your client legal advice when you have reason to believe that the knowledge will tempt him to commit perjury...
...living in the Age of the Jerk," he wrote in one of his last pieces. "The manifestations of Jerkism are all over the place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House or on the tracks of the Southern Pacific to 'protest' anything...