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During his enforced residence abroad he was first and foremost a stalwart American. He was honest, intelligent, fearless. His home life was an example...
...Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago is changing a little. The Chicago Crime Commission, under a small, fearless, 76-year-old lawyer, named Frank J.Loesch, has set out to clean up the crime capital of the U. S. beginning at the top with Chief of Police Michael Hughes. In the old days it was a mark of distinction to be seen at gangster funerals, but during the Loesch prosecutions...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, bushy-haired, fearless Baptist clergyman, last week addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the part of the strong. Page Pharaoh, page Nebuchadnezzar,* and Sennacherib,† page Nero and Napoleon! Or consider our own country today...
Sirs: I like TIME...but it...takes my breath away...Bold...Fearless...I read it each week.... usually on my way to a on my way to a class...Spicy...Much News & Intelligence in Small Space...Rush to Press so often mentioned very evident...too bad...no time to put captions under pictures... that have something to do with same...must read whole article sometimes...to get what devilish caption means...this is waste of time...I am rushed too...Comment on Foreign & Nat. Affairs... very good...reviews of plays, movies, books, etc. meaningless, hasty, unsympathetic...but...as I said...
...taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence...