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...Burton] and the accompanying fantastic and lewd deformity was so extravagant that ... it made of the plaintiff a preposterously ridiculous spectacle, and the obvious mistake only added to the amusement. . . . The plaintiff has been substantially enough ridiculed to be in a position to complain. . . . Possibly anyone who chooses to stir such a controversy in court cannot have been very sensitive originally, but that is a consideration for the jury...
...years, a judge for only three. During the three he has built up a State-wide reputation for unusual decisions. Last year, for example, he recommended the re-establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters and gun-toters. Last week he made a stir with one more resounding decision: that a person on roller skates is a "vehicle." Up before peppery Judge Hunter came the case of 12-year-old James Maas, crippled by the car of one J. O. Workman while roller-skating on the State highway...
Investigation as to what happened to the Veterans of Future Wars, that interesting organization which caused so much stir in collegiate circles, reveals that the Veterans have ceased to clamor for their bonus. In short, the society has gone the way of all flesh, it has folded...
Last week when the news of Dr. Tugwell's resignation broke, he and Secretary Wallace were making a tour of Resettlement projects-a tour originally planned to stir Mr. Wallace's enthusiasm for them. Before it began, however, it had turned into a farewell tour. When newshawks caught up with them at Memphis, Henry Wallace loyally declared: "You know. Rex has been one of the most vigorous fighters for the capitalistic system that I know of. ... Men of Tugwell's courage and insight are rare. We shall all regret that he is no longer in Government...
...been busy with the rubber strike (Akron), building service strike (Manhattan), anthracite negotiations, gas strike (Toledo), shipping strike (San Francisco). In three years he has spent less than a quarter of his time in his air-cooled Washington office, has flown an estimated 145,000 miles to stir the New Deal's peace porridge wherever labor troubles brewed. Today, with labor troubles brewing harder than ever, his peace porridge is getting hotter...