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...continued study of the copy of the ordinance led me to believe that it was passed as a revenue raising measure for the STATE. Let's see what happens. If I had been stopped at the State line in a decent way and paid my permit the State would have $2. This fee by the way increases with heavier trucks, and properly supervised this ordinance would bring the State a great deal of revenue. As it is. you will note that the J. P. made himself $3.15#151;the officer $2.90-the witness (that guy killed me, he never...
...midweek the triple murder mystery had reached such a news-picture frenzy that decent, practical, socialite Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid News, with front and back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
...cannot refrain from joining the crowd of eternal mudslingers at Germany, you should at least keep decent and take back your statement about the "appalling number of bastards" conceived in Hitler Camps (TIME, Feb. 8). Can you prove it? Then why the slander? If you had lived in Germany in the "Before-Hitler-Time," you would look at the Führer's achievement with different eyes-but you seem to think that 66,000,000 Germans are just fools...
...play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick up now and then, are essentially decent animals, except for one percent consisting of such specimens as international munitions-makers...