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Because police and FBI agents kept mum, nobody could say how many such robberies had taken place, whether they were the result of common criminal greed or systematic sabotage. But newsmen learned of two in Chicago, one in Cleveland, six in New York City. The monetary loss in these thefts was about $75,000 but the loss of badly needed tools was more important. In Washington, Advisory Defense Commissioner William Knudsen refused to worry: "I don't imagine you could steal enough to get us in any trouble, and, anyhow, we could make some more." But the new form...
...done better at raiding than remaining, MRA and its guiding "Soul Surgeon" Frank Buchman had now been comfortably operating in California for eleven months. Something about its free-&-easy panacea appealed to the West Coast: "It's a world movement designed to build a world free from intolerance, greed, hatred and fear. You don't join anything, you don't pay anything, the idea is that you begin living the MRA standards. . . ." Leader Buchman, who last week celebrated his 62nd birthday, told the press that he found no objection to "50,000 airplanes for America," felt that...
...reckoned without election-year greed. Every right-thinking legislator in the House saw this as his great opportunity to prove to the important interests in his district how much he loved them. A drumfire of amendments hit the House hopper; soon the Barden Bill was riddled. Failing to recognize his brain child in the messy result, Mr. Barden urged the House to kill the monstrosity-which was mercifully done...
Giants. Overlord of all Pennsylvania from the '80s until 1904 was Matthew Stanley Quay, a stocky strategist with miscast eyes who made greed a fine art. Matt Quay, who shared national Republican power with Ohio's Mark Hanna, had a simple philosophy: "When a politician dies he leaves only what is found on him.'' Boss Quay sold offices, gambled with public funds, looted banks, racketeered in public contracts, drove at least a dozen men to suicide, ran Pennsylvania with a precise regard for 1) personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective...
...pray their labor may not be in vain and that their victory will open the way toward the new world we are endeavoring to build-that hate-free, greed-free, fear-free world for which every one of us longs." Secret will be kept the date on which the new Governor General will sail to Canada this spring...