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When Congress met that day Mr. O'Connor jumped to his feet, said: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that, on Page 1248 of the Congressional Record. .. the word 'allies' be stricken out and the word 'bellies' inserted in lieu thereof...
...Algonquin, George W. Campbell plunged for the scene. Crews from Coskata and Maddaket stations joined Gay Head's in the search. Soon reporters from all over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown's story got better & better. Not only the stricken ship's radio operator but its captain had called for help. "They just shrieked there were 164 men aboard. . . . They said: 'Send assist ance immediately. We are sinking...
Framing FORTUNE's account of the dispossessed are pictures of a Tennessee family in a poverty-stricken mountain cabin; framing the story on U. S. culture are quotations from Walt Whitman and an album of U. S. folkways, covering U. S. unions, U. S. salesmen, the 30,000 U. S. industrial managers and the 32,000.000 U. S. farmers. In other articles, FORTUNE covers U. S. opinion in a survey, conducted by Poll Taker Elmo Roper, that measures U. S. opinion about itself...
...second Army is Turkey's, 200,000 strong, at present preoccupied with repairing the devastation of last month's monster earthquake. President General Inönü visited the stricken region not only to comfort his panicked peasantry (see cut, p. 31),but for military reasons. The thorough wreckage of northeastern Asia Minor has destroyed the railroads, without which Turkey's eastern defenses can hardly be supplied. Whether or not he expects to be at war by spring, last week President Inönü got from his adjourning Parliament emergency decree powers like those Premier Daladier...
...White-Collar Criminality" was the title of a rip-snorting paper by Dr. Edwin Hardin Sutherland of Indiana University, last year's president of the American Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food...