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...Stoveman Bissell, whose California vacation was spoiled by news that her home, heirlooms and art collection had gone up in smoke, dispatched a letter to the Pittsburgh city council: "I have just been informed . . . that the fire department had come to the fire with insufficient hose to reach the plug, and that by the time they had sent about the city to collect ample hose it was too late. My family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire we have had, your department, through inexcusable carelessness, was unable...
Centuries of parliamentary tradition have left His Majesty's realm with almost no political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy...
...Speaker's stand, few Representatives knew or cared what was in them. Only solemn little Floor Leader Isom Guillory pretended to take much interest as the House passed one bill per minute on to its Ways & Means Committee. Next morning Senator Long had to send one of his plug-uglies out to round up the Committee. They came helter skelter, sat surrounded by Long bodyguards and State police while the Kingfish "explained" his bills. Next day the House sluggishly spent a full three minutes per bill in giving its final approval...
When some 77 Germans were shot during Adolf Hitler's "blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died...
...toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut of droll Herb Williams. In earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various winnings in kind enable him to embark on such careers as the ministry, dentistry, photography and almanac salesmanship as the play...