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...with bootlegging and organized crime. Further, the present financial condition of New York is attributed to "the waste, graft, and corruption with which the city is infested." But the report goes beyond this evidence, and suggests constructive criticism. Judge Seabury recommends that the school and police departments be immediately rid of politics and political influence. He suggests as the ONLY cure for the situation the City Manager form of government, which should be free of politics...
...Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible rebellion in his own party...
...electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...
...station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve his bills, has killed a policeman. In the meantime. Fairbanks and the counterfeiter play rough hide-&-seek among the shunting trains in the station yard...
...Almanac was established by the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the World in 1886 because current almanacs, all of which were political, were strongly Republican. Pulitzer wanted something that told Democratic history and news. Gradually it got rid of its political flavor, lived to be the foremost U. S. general almanac...