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...first time since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have been voting themselves pensions and appointments as fast as their Board of Estimate could say "Yea." At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien. Out of dusty files they fished up and passed a pension for a onetime...
...turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features of the original film caused cool heads in the Nazi hierarchy to fear that, if released throughout Germany, it would incite a nation-wide pogrom. Besides, who was young Horst Wessel anyway...
...decades has a U. S. Ambassador been withdrawn amid such withering blasts of criticism as huffed and puffed in Havana last week when lean, bland, Socialite Sumner Welles, jauntily swinging his cane, stepped into a Pan American Airways liner and roared off to Miami on his way back to Washington...
Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated...
Elected chairman of the Yale Daily News for next year was Sophomore Jonathan Brewster Bingham, 19, youngest of the seven tall lean sons of tall lean Hiram ("Hi") Bingham, Yaleman (1898), onetime Yale Professor, onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator from Connecticut. Career doings of the other six Bingham sons: Woodbridge, 32, is studying for a Ph. D. in Chinese history at Stanford University. Hiram Jr., 30, one of the U. S. Foreign Service, is at the U. S. Embassy in London. Alfred Mitchell, 29, an attorney, helps publish the pinko fortnightly Common Sense in Manhattan. Charles Tiffany...