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...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
Jack Dempsey's (50th and 8th Ave.) supplies an excellent dinner with steaks grilled over charcoal before your eyes. There's a blue mirrored, soft-lighted cocktail room, and a supper dance room with two orchestras. You may enjoy Jack's endless collection of antographed photographs of the world's famous...
Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...
Since then, despite the fact that sociologically the death penalty exists only as a horrible warning to others, most newspapers have soft-pedaled electrocutions. Newshawks, many of whom leave a death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen...
...show the attentive politicians how it was done. An attendant scrubbed the gaunt tuberculous woman's chest with alcohol. Dr. Joannides anesthetized a small area between two ribs. Then he took a jar of filtered air from a shelf. To the mouth of the jar was attached a soft rubber tube. To the other end of the tube Dr. Joannides fastened a large hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around her diseased lung. When he judged that the cushion...