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...Strategy of Terror), a shrewd expert on Nazi fifth-columning, whose subject was What Is Wrong with the Chicago Tribune? Characterizing Colonel McCormick's editorial policy as "criminal nonsense," Taylor coupled the Tribune with Wheeler and Lindbergh as "dirty fighters who are using the political equivalent of poison...
...abortion; his brother Piotra is shot in cold blood by his Red cousin Mishka; his loose sister-in-law Daria, eaten by venereal disease, drowns herself in the Don; his sister Dunia marries Mishka, who becomes one of those insufferably coldhearted bullies who helped keep together-and poison-the post-revolutionary regime...
...cited the "crematory" bill-a perfect "sandbagger." This measure would have required that no person in Missouri be cremated for 48 hours after death. Reason given: possible traces of murder, such as poison, could not thus be destroyed. Kicker in the bill: everybody to be cremated must first be inspected by the local coroner. Fee: $10. Natural effect of such a bill was to arouse high hopes in Missouri coroners; to arouse opposition among cemetery operators. Hay charged: "My conclusion was that they [certain legislators] conspired to frame a plan through which they would receive money...
...police station Knifey looked on as Joseph Wodarczyk, reconciled, kissed his wife. "Girls?" said Knifey. "Poison, that's what they are, poison. I first got to stealin' because of a girl. I was twelve and she was ten, and we were in love like a couple of grownup goofs...
...general," said he, "TIME'S story on the Rockefeller offices is, no doubt, a piece or legitimate reporting for American readers, But TIME has no business to send to Latin America in its Air-Express edition news of this kind. . . . What is meat for us here may be poison for those abroad...