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...Chicago many a charge against past & present city officials arose from the finding of Gangster Jack Zuta's record books (TIME, Sept.1). Since the first of the year the city's finances have been in dire straits. Last week 7,210 city employes were payless, despite the efforts of a citizens' committee headed by Banker-Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn. Last week Mr. Strawn attended an investment-bankers' meeting at New Orleans, made a speech about municipal securities, raised a voice as indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity...
...anything will. The "week end tradition" if carried on with the diligence of former fathers by the present sons will do much to impress upon the boys that the country and the gods can be served in later years, but that Yale now is in dire need...
...announced a new course in "Education and International Problems and Values" to promote an understanding of the methods of obtaining world peace. And on the heels of this comes the announcement that several American diplomats are convinced that another European war is brewing. They attempt to soften these dire prognostications with the pious opinion that the United States will never be drawn into such a conflict excepting to "protect her honor...
...Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, vociferous chairman of the Banking & Currency Committee, made a dire prophecy of much lower price levels, even hinted at anarchy and revolution, insinuated that vast machinations by a J. P. Morgan-directed group are to blame for everything...
...white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...