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...World in 1931 Lippmann seemed checked in midcareer. When he was offered and accepted a place in the columns of the arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock of taking in this potential viper and started to preen itself on owning the prize exhibit in the journalistic zoo. Lippmann's popularity as a daily...
...Soviets. . . . But it is clear to every one that the violent administrative rage that has swept leaders of the region has nothing to do with the Bolshevist struggle against the true enemies and wreckers. Better Bolshevist organization and more businesslike care of combines and combine operators, of thousands of shock workers and of collective farm labor and less panic and terrible sentences, Comrades of Saratov...
...Since Melville Stone's death the organization has been experimenting, not always to the benefit of its old reputation. However, to those who knew and admired the AP tradition, it comes as a shock to learn that the management is now offering to members a new Washington column of such doubtful ethical quality that the AP is not even willing to take public responsibility for it. . . . A gossip column . . . the lowest form of journalism! . . . Shades of Victor Lawson...
...city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood the shock better than old Spanish stone houses and churches outside the town, many of whose walls and roofs crumbled. Before total damage had been estimated, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon-who had been dressing for a banquet in his Malacanan palace when the earthquake struck-proclaimed a state of emergency, threatened severe penalties...
...pets raised in the unnatural conditions of the city.* These veterinarians are up on many of the latest medical wrinkles. At Omaha last week one specialist showed how to deliver a city-bred bitch by Cesarean section, another adroitly gave a blood transfusion to a dog suffering from shock...