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From the sunkissed shores of Staten Island to the rock-bound coast of The Bronx, New York City voters went to the polls last week to vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation...
This is one of the most interesting of the various stories told about the apes and was firmly believed by the British artillerymen who were stationed on the Rock during the World...
...late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing always from the same position, seemed too static to them. They wanted something more like real hunting. On the grounds of the Glen Rock Kennels they traced a great circle, set up a trap outside it, then moved around the circle potting the flying targets from all angles...
...HARWOOD ALLEN Cameron, Wis. Sirs: Allow an ardent TIME reader to highly commend the article in the Sept. 11 issue, entitled "In a Washroom." Here's hoping such a publication of facts will help to muzzle forever "a United States Senator in his cups." MRS. D. C. JOHNSTON Rock Hill, S. C. Sirs: Many thanks for "In a Washroom,'' under Political Notes, p. 16, issue of Sept. 11. If the incident, the details of TIME so skilfully presents, opens the gate to that long-desired path through which Huey is to be permanently shunted into...
...Binghamton, N. Y. on the Erie's main line. Week prior the Southern's Crescent Limited had lurched off a water-logged bridge into a raging river while entering Washington over the Pennsylvania's tracks, had killed two, injured 13. Five days later the Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State Limited had met with an almost identical disaster on the Southern Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week...