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...fate of all Kings' mistresses will soon be yours!" This was written on an expensive letter card, Mayfair-postmarked, and three days later Mrs. Simpson received an identical card in the same typewriting which read: "Had you been living 200 years ago, means would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall...
...keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again in the Congressional elections of 1938 or the Presidential campaign four years from now. That it was so thoroughly discredited this year is not because it was dishonest or unfair in its motives...
...stocks in United Stockyards Corp., a new corporate entity which last September purchased Swift's large interests in one Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson and Cudahy divorced themselves from their relatively small stockyard interests within a few years, Armour took until 1928. Swift, by far the largest owner of stockyards, litigated, delayed, took the last four years to find a purchaser, agree to details...
...year agreements then adopted gave the unions a half share in controlling the halls, as well as dealing with the need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins pointing an accusing finger at the employers as the prime offenders, the seamen have taken the final step of calling out a strike...
...party scramble began last summer when 75-year-old George William Norris. veteran of ten years in the House and 24 in the Senate, announced his desire for retirement. Relieved were Nebraska's regular Republicans to be thus rid of a man who, Republican in name only, had returned from Washington every six years to snatch their Senatorial nomination, disrupt their party ranks. Quickly and quietly they marshaled their forces, gave the Senatorial nomination to a longtime 100% Republican Representative, Robert G. Simmons, who had lost his House seat in the 1932 Democratic landslide...