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...circulation of Hearst's newspapers must be falling off. The New York American has evidently found the Collegiate red scare insufficient and has therefore added a Fascist or "black" scare to its already horror-stricken editorial page. All in the same breath, with no hint of the fact that in itself it has recently been driving towards Fascism, it now violently and somewhat ludicrously attacks both Communism and Fascism in the schools and colleges. In heavy type, it urges American parents to "STOP SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO INFECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND EXPOSING THEM TO THESE POISONOUS ALIEN PLAGUES...
Even though Anchorage ranks third in population, it is a town of ill-constructed wooden buildings and shacks with a large percentage of its people unemployed and poverty-stricken...
...distinguished guests wandered off to inspect the Jersey cows, the Hampshire hogs, the gambusia fish, the flat fat fields, the workshops in which a War-ridden poverty-stricken peasantry is being guided toward economic independence...
...when he read that his plan had been roundly approved by Manhattan's Macy's. Sitting at his desk in shirtsleeves, President Tily confided to a newshawk that the scheme pleased him because it was "ethically and morally right." Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went to work as a messenger boy at $2 a week. After hours he stayed awake...
When Upton Sinclair was campaigning on his EPIC program of State Socialism, panic-stricken capital started flying out of California, the motion picture industry cried "Confiscation!" and announced it would move to Florida if Sinclair won, and the San Francisco Argonaut wailed: "The catastrophe of Sinclair's election would be drastic enough to overthrow all that is fine and good and stable in California life...