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Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...Stella S. Center of New York Uni versity last week told the National Council of Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta. Her complaint was not news to them. They had heard things very like it from parents and most of them knew it was true. Even Harvard has found it necessary to start a course in reading fundamentals for freshmen, each year has to teach nearly 20% of the class how to read its books...
Henry Huddleston Rogers III, bespectacled Standard Oil heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation...
...Peeved. Their complaint was only partly economic. Many officers were sons or grandsons of Japan's feudal soldiery who, with the nobility, had once been the Empire's aristocracy. They were irked by the decline of military power and prestige...
...companies denied all the charges, will probably carry their case to the Supreme Court. Their contention, as presented to the jury by American Tobacco's Attorney George Whiteside: the Government's real complaint was that the companies were "guilty of the unpardonable sin of success...