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...Washington one evening last week a gaunt, kindly old man uprose before a small group of people, including 20-odd Congressmen, and began to talk softly but zealously. "The Depression," said he, "was caused by only one thing - failure of the country's purchasing power. The solution is simple. Give all the aged a pension and the task of spending it every month, before they could receive more. Purchasing power will be restored. Business will boom. Prices will go up, of course. But what's the difference? Everyone will have plenty of money. There will be no more...
Newshawks were not long tracing down the author of the fantastic pamphlet. Indeed, the only nonfictional name in it was hers, as defense counsel. She was Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, crusading Chicago attorney. Last year gaunt white-haired Mrs. Spencer made news by having Dancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. Mrs. Spencer has brought up two young daughters on a strictly self-expressionistic plan. Once, when they threw their Christmas tree out a window, their mother recalls that "it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head." (TIME, Sept...
...more to joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture...
...Bremer County, Iowa, back in 1906, a tall, gaunt, 42-year-old man named Joseph Newt Finney was blasting rock at his trade of fence-builder. A charge of dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...bill brands His Majesty's forces as lunatics, if they remain loyal, knowing they are barred from hearing the Opposition!" scoffed gaunt, stringy-haired James Maxton, the Labor Party's No. 1 near-Communist...