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What Chief Roche did not explain, what set ugly rumors flying was the question: Who hired Brothers to shoot Lingle? Conjectures were plentiful because the Tribune reporter was too deeply enmeshed in underworld affairs not to have made many a gangster enemy...
...laymen are more than vaguely aware that the U. S. has a Distinguished Flying Cross which it has bestowed upon 79 men. Considerably fewer can explain how and why the D. F. C. is awarded. Writing in Outlook & Independent this week Carl B. Allen, smart aviation editor of the New York World, submits: "... That the D. F. C. has strayed from its original conception as [an] acknowledgment of 'heroism or extraordinary achievement ... in an aerial flight' and degenerated somewhat into the plaything of politicians and a pawn in the hands of the Ballyhoo Boys...
This inexcusable attitude, on the part of 1932 and 1933 men, of "letting the other fellow do it" is difficult to explain. The competitions in extra-curricular activities at the University are conducted with comparative fairness and impartiality. Rewards are in a direct ratio to sustained effort. Whether the classes of 1932 and 1933 are not capable of sustained effort, or whether they are merely incapable of any effort at all, is a question. Certainly the failure to show interest can not be excused on the grounds of inexperience for experience is not necessary...
...Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit...
...kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they are things so trivial by the ordinary standards . . . that even I cannot explain why they can still be sometimes almost excruciating to recall; hard, wounding things I have said to people . . . the way I once hit at and did not kill a rat and had to go on killing it, and other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished...