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...Wilson did not rise from Republican Deputy Controller of Philadelphia to Democratic Controller to Republican Mayor to Democratic candidate for U. S. Senatorial nomination by wasting his vituperative talents on invulnerable opponents. To Philadelphians therefore it seemed perfectly natural that shrewd Mr. Wilson last week should choose for a target vulnerable Little Matt...
...type of British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton...
...Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley .25. Ironically, the immediate benefits of these safeguards for Trotsky...
...Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...
...bomb dropping event, two pound sacks of flour will be dropped over the side at a target from an altitude of 500 feet from level flight...