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Stalin and Business. Grateful indeed in these slack times are most U. S. businessmen to receive orders from Dictator Stalin's agents. Newsorgans which report every new contract to build up the Red State begin with the Wall Street Journal and by no means end with the Boston Herald, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, the Stockton (Calif.) Independent...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...
...General Albert Sidney Burleson, Republican Senators tried to blame him for any wrongdoing. But it was Republican Postmaster General Will Hays who signed the first lease in 1922, Republican Postmaster General Harry Stewart New who renewed it in 1925. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown was accused of being very slack and indifferent to extirpating the alleged fraud...
...this depressing hour, with news from the conference slack, Chicago's blatant Tribune, fantastically profitable and self-styled "The World's Greatest Newspaper," committed what is probably the journalistic atrocity of the year, headlined above a front page story: "MORGAN'S HAND IS SEEN BEHIND U. S. NAVAL DEAL. Parity surrender is still a mystery...
...captain told me, for instance, that there is practically no coaching at all in tennis and that the selection of the team is often strongly influenced by favoritism on the part of the captain. I have also heard from cricket and soccer men that both organization and training are slack as far as the college branches of their sports are concerned. The interesting fact, though, is not that they admitted the organization of these sports to be loose, but that they complained of its being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule...