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Long: That is the toughest thing I ever ran into. No one wants to agree to anything. Some members of the Senate have gotten into a bad humor...
Schedules and equipment and operating personnel have not yet gotten down to a satisfactory state. . . . Our Western trip was canceled a few hours before departure because of motor trouble on the eastbound bus. "somewhere in Kansas." Had a passenger written your story he probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built...
...Indianapolis, trying to arrest three blind men, Rex Overman, Charles Bennett and Ray Johnson, who had gotten drunk in a hotel room with two women, police had their faces clawed, broke one blind man's head open...
...penchant of the Guild for the unusual, one would suspect that "Parade, A Satirical Revue," conceals beneath its orthodox song and dance title something new and surprising in the line of musicals and this proves completely and satisfyingly the truth. Once the run-of-the-mill opening has been gotten over, "Parade" develops rapidly into a most unusual and refreshingly progressive undertaking...
...Couzens, for a $1,000 contribution to a girls' home. Enclosing a $2,500 check, the Senator pointedly replied: "I think you could do a lot more for girls and women by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they have gotten into trouble...