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...injustice." Lady Morecombe, the widowed mother of the dead man, appeals to the Editor of the particular yellow sheet which is most concerned with making a major scandal of the lamentable affair. "You want to sell your paper," she says, "and because of that, my son, who can't defend himself, is to be blackened his affairs hawked about the streets." The Editor "It's hardly as simple as that. We do want to sell our paper, of course. A Press that doesn't pay its way can't live. But if there's a villain in the piece...
...exactly twenty-one reels--or, in translation, three pictures--for the revelation to come. Which revelation consists in the single fact that Maurice Chevalier, playing at the Metropolitan in "The Big Pond", is unaccountably unable to sing. Doubtless, there are many of his minions who will be ready to defend him despite the revelation, but anyway there it is and you can't get around Revelations. Which critical appreciation of Monsieur Chevalier's vocal talents being summarily disposed of, there remains only a bit of a word about the picture...
...sought an order to padlock the Capone estate on the ground that the place was "a public nuisance and a source of annoyance to the community as a harbor for all classes of criminals and desperate characters." Capone, with his wife, son, lawyers, bodyguards, entered a crowded courtroom to defend himself. Exclaimed Fritz Gordon, Capone attorney: "The whole thing is a political scheme hatched up by State's Attorney Hawthorne and James Cox, publisher of the Miami Daily News, in a campaign for Hawthorne's re-election...
...year a House Judiciary subcommittee secretly sifted the charges, heard evidence. Judge Moskowitz continued to sit on the bench, hired John William Davis, onetime (1924) Democratic presidential nominee, to defend him. The subcommittee reported to the whole committee two months ago that it found insufficient grounds for impeachment, recommended a mild form of censure. Particularly dissatisfied with this finding was New York's Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, a Judiciary committeeman who has been acting like a watch dog of the U.S. Judiciary (TIME, March 24). Congressman LaGuardia, passionately pleading for 100% judicial purity, was largely responsible for the committee...
...boats which raced for the America's cup in the old days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless for any purpose except racing. The change has come about because Sir Thomas, and the syndicates building U. S. boats to defend the Cup, have agreed that they ought to use only a "sensible type of yacht." The Shamrock V will compete in English regattas in May and will sail across the Atlantic with 20 men aboard, for the Cup races in September. Her skipper will be Ernest Heard, mate...