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From poverty's pinch I'm further immune...
...Crime Seminar was formed for the benefit of rural prosecuting attorneys who know nothing about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to an intensive program of lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Their teachers were from Northwestern's Law School, from the famed Crime Detection Laboratory recently sold to Chicago by Northwestern...
...Eastern cities where the drive was concentrated, recruits swarmed into the U.O.P.W.'s Industrial Insurance Agents Union. Last November, Metropolitan's President Leroy A. Lincoln reminded his agents of what the company had done for them, strongly indicated that in a pinch Metropolitan could get along without most of them. Last February, Mr. Lincoln declared he would never truckle to any organization which did not represent his 29,000,000 policyholders. On a fairly peaceful basis with Prudential, I.I.A.U. filed a complaint against Metropolitan with the New York State Labor Relations Board, against John Hancock with NLRB...
...Louisville his drinking water was poisoned. To gather himself for the stretch run this week and next, he retired by ambulance to the executive mansion at Frankfort over the weekend while Candidate Barkley paused for breath at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Mrs. Chandler and Daughters Mimi and Marcella pinch-hit at Happy's meetings. Said loyal Mrs. Chandler: "Happy is absolutely certain...
...proof that Cable loved his native New Orleans. But when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath of old settlers, neighbors...