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...colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional...
...Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part of the military authorities, especially when the victims are advanced in years and of a class...
...truck farmer in Clay County, Minn., just across the Red River from Fargo, N. Dak. One day last summer by a squiggle of his pen Farmer Bosshard suddenly made himself an immensely important figure in the political and financial life of Minnesota. What he signed was a complaint against 19 directors of Northwest Bancorporation, charging second degree larceny for selling him ten shares of stock for $220. Farmer Bosshard was persuaded to sign the complaint by henchmen of Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson...
...little town of Moorhead, in the northwest corner of Minnesota where Farmer-Labor strength is great. Moorhead is the Clay County seat, and the Olson prosecutors went out to see Farmer Bosshard, who was one of the 25 Banco stock-holders in the vicinity. On the basis of his complaint, without waiting for the formality of an indictment, a district judge ordered Banco's President J. Cameron Thomson and his 18 directors arrested...
...cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause of complaint was the technical corner which existed in the midst of plenty...