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...Gregg advocates would be impossible outside of a retreat, which by its very seclusion would limit its spiritual benefits to its own members. A university, nevertheless, and quite fortunately, is a place where idealistic influences have some chance of exerting a leavening power on the community. Mr. Gregg's complaint evidently is that the leaven of philosophy falls short of leavening the whole lump. In this we can all agree with him, while hoping and working for a better world...
...that Felix got his biggest publicity boost, making all the papers "across to San Francisco" (pronounce chisco). A certain Reverend Frank Chase of the Watch and Ward Society lodged complaint against Felix for the sale of the American Mercury; which contained an article deemed injurious to American morals. While Felix was sentenced to a $100 fine, the American Mercury continued to sell briskly in Puritan Boston without interference from the authorities. The nation's press took up the cause of the Little Man and by its moral support more than recompensated Felix for his financial loss...
...Little Flower, acting in his capacity as magistrate, signed a warrant for the arrest of Julius Stolz, president of Interborough News Co., distributors of Man to Man. Then he bustled to a police station, jumped up behind the lieutenant's desk, heard the complaint (offering for sale an "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book or magazine"), released Distributor Stolz in $5,000 bail...
Understatement has never been the backbone of Crazy promotion. Sample blurb: ". . . 70 to 75% of disease today can be attributed to one condition. Crazy Water remedies this common condition." Fortnight ago the Federal Trade Commission cracked down, issued a complaint against Crazy Water Co. Charged FTC: Crazy cannot help, as it claims it can, in the cure or relief of some 30 ailments of the alimentary or urinary tracts, Crazy misrepresents constipation as the cause of some 50 diseases, Crazy products do nothing more than speed the bowels...
...anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...