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...crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary...
Last week Dean Robert Kilburn Root announced that, beginning next autumn, Princeton will have a "hospital for the illiterate," listed in the catalog as "Corrective English." There the freshman whose back is stronger than his syntax will spend eight weeks. If still unable to write a "decent English sentence," he will repeat the course in second term. There will be two more chances in sophomore year. If he persists in failure, the halls of Princeton will see him no more...
Objectives: "Among our objectives I place the security of the men, women and children of the nation first. . . . People want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours." Legislative Proposals: i) "There is ample private money for sound housing projects; and the Congress, in a measure now before you, can stimulate the lending of money for the modernization of existing homes and the building of new homes. In pursuing this policy...
...Trumpet Blows-produced by Paramount. . . . The absolutely unwholesome and unattractive George Raft is the 'hero,' loose in his relationship with women and a thorough no-account. . . . It is unfit for any decent person to see or approve. . . . Protest to Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California. Protest to George Raft, same address...
...past two seasons a U. S. Cavalcade has been agitated. Mr. Flournoy's drama may lack the bugle blast of Empire, but it is a tender record of an enduring, decent people...