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...first unexpected actions that start them on the way to tragedy, Miss Smith's characters move less like Struggling human beings than like prisoners on whom literary sentence has been passed, torpid, dazed, well-nigh speechless, and locked in the confines of her narrow plot like Georgia chain-gang prisoners...
According to the best available records, he is the only member of his service ever to brave the hallowed corridors of Beaver Hall. We thought perhaps that the USMC had decided to send a one man gang to Boston to take over NSCS, but such is not the case. Lt. Lenhart was unfortunate enough to choose one of the few branches--aviation supply--of the Marine Corps that works under the Navy supply system, so it was his penalty to undergo the SC course...
...relief trains had no reserved seats). Florida's black market business in regular Pullman reservations continued to boom. Up rose President Andrew G. O'Rourke of the Greater Miami Hotel Association to declare: most of the black market ticket-selling was the work of "an unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar Hoover said the Miami gang had been making a profit...
...Warren have other similarities. Dewey was a flashy racket-buster who fastened on cases with national interest and made the most of the attendant publicity. Earl Warren's work as district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley) was less spectacular. But in a state where most gang-busting is done on movie lots, he sent droves of bootleggers, con men, grafters and corrupt city officials packing off to jail...
...unions, to the veterans, to the big shots, to this bloc and that group. I wish some time somebody would rise up in the House and holler ... a kind word for the miscellaneous lugs like Oxie O'Rourke. . . . But I'm afraid the other lobbyists would gang up on us, claiming we was un-American...