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Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
...payment of union wages on relief projects. The bill was nearly cut to ribbons under his feet, when Vice President Garner went to his aid, suggested that it would be better to send the mangled measure back to committee for repairs and later slide it through in a cooler hour-a trick which worked...
Secretary Wallace was cooler but equally emphatic: "We are not going to allow the purchasing power of Southern planters to be wrecked; it means too much to the prosperity of the rest of the country." Then he announced as his latest slogan for farm control: "Plenty without waste." "I wish to announce my complete abhorrence of this tendency to provide an economy of scarcity," said the New Deal's stanchest advocate of crop reduction. "Agriculture did not start it and does not plan to continue it. We have been for a balanced production...
...substances deposited on the ground disperse as scent particles. If the ground is too cold, the rate is too slow for the keenest nose; if too warm, the scent is soon all gone. Best condition for a detectable but lingering scent seemed to be moderately warm soil with slightly cooler air above...
Chief critical interest in The Plough & the Stars was its comparison with Mr. O'Casey's fantastic Within the Gates, also playing in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 5). Consensus of cooler heads was that O'Casey's earlier realism had cards and spades over his later flights into the realm of theatrical fancy...