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Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...
...feature game of the day, Arnold Jones, former tennis captain at Yale, defeated Robert Grant '34 mainly through his well-executed shots. Grant was a bit wild, and seemed to be unable to get a grip on his game. In a long, hard-fought squash match, S. E. Davenport, III '34 wore down his opponent, Phinney, and finally pulled ahead to take the fifth game. Captain J. G. Cornish ocC, lost to the generally superior playing of Harrington, former Harvard player, and member of the Boston squash team that played against the English team in the internationals. The last...
...diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending anyone, yet his answer may open the way to further understanding and help set the stage for negotiators in whom authority is vested. If the U. S. loses its grip on Debts as a club to force Disarmament, the fault will lie with President Hoover and Norman Davis. Conversely, if Debt pressure brings down armaments, the great credit will be wholly theirs...
There come times in the lives of men when a dark, blood-curdling murder mystery is apropos. Those who at the witching hour huddle by the fireside in wide-eyed horror over the ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...
...Saga into following cheerfully at Author Galsworthy's heels wishes now that his leader would sit down and take a well-earned rest. Having finally, after several backward glances, parted from the Forsytes, Galsworthy has now taken up with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind...