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...vocabulary of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, there is no more contemptuous adjective than "Farleyized." Tirelessly he has belabored Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley as a veritable monster of spoils-manship, a brass-conscienced destroyer of good government. Early in the campaign, Chairman Farley plaintively inquired:"We're both in the same racket. Why does he take digs at me?"Since then he has treated Chairman Hamilton to the ultimate political insult of silence, ignoring him with the contempt of a St. Bernard for a yapping Pekingese. Only when the Republican Chairman backed up his Vice...
...City of New York William Randolph Hearst paid $30,000 to satisfy claims for a fireworks explosion nearly 34 years ago in which 17 persons were killed, 17 crippled for life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar...
...dramatically "called to life ' the electrical generating equipment of Boulder Dam last fortnight by pressing a gold telegraph key in Washington, he actually started only one small generator for dam site use (TIME, Sept. 21). Next month, however, power will begin to pour into Los Angeles from the monster 115,000 h. p. turbines. Since this is 60-cycle current and since the city has been using 50-cycle current, some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal repair stations where...
...birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with common-sense analyses and romantic speculations, that was calculated to reduce Herod's crimes to historical perspective, render him less a monster, more the victim of a monstrous set of circumstances. Although the portrait that emerges seems plausible, readers are likely to feel that the value of Herod lies less in the discussions of the central figure than in Dr. Minkin's learned account of the relations between Rome and Judea...
David W. Black has made his living for 16 years by collecting fossils and sea creatures, and never in all that time had he seen anything like the rotting monster he dug out of the sands of Copalis Beach, near Seattle. Neither had any of the people who flocked to inspect it last week. All they could think of was sea serpent. It was eight feet long, weighed about 1,300 Ib. It had a head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo...