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...exploded with an article in Liberty, called Will the Communists Get Our Girls in College? and signed J. G. Shaw. This put forth the idea that the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) is a disguised Communist trap for college students and that the male members occasionally seduce the female recruits. Wrote J. G. Shaw, ''You can't afford to laugh at them-as I did ... and a thousand other fathers who see their daughters put on the road to Hell-too late." Liberty added that the time required to read this article was 13 minutes, five...
...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...
...need a mouse for the snake trap, I have a mouse trap, to catch the mouse to catch the snake with. I catch a copperhead snake first time I try. Always tell a copperhead because he smells like cucumbers. Now I make a trap for alligators. But not for elephant. He walks away...
...reporters Merkl explained that he had been trained in Germany as a copper wire net maker, started making traps to catch rats and weasels that were killing his Ossining hens. The American Humane Association gave him a prize for the most humane animal trap and Merkl went into business in his shed making traps by hand, far more slowly than his two sons could sell them. "I have to punch and rivet by hand. If only I had a spot welder. I make about 150 small traps a week. I can get orders...
...they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant carried on intricate negotiations with the thieves, bargained and made conditions of sales like a diplomat at a peace conference. "Cammi" Grizzard distrusted the merchant, the merchant distrusted the police, and, as "Cammi" evaded one trap after another, the police began to distrust their own agents. After "Cammi" Grizzard spotted four Scotland Yard men at a place where the jewels were to be transferred, he set his spies to shadowing the detectives. Scotland Yard set more detectives to shadow "Cammi's" spies, until long processions...