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...income taxes until that witness had to admit that he knew nothing about them, Senator Glass complained bitterly that Counsel Pecora was "badgering" Banker Morgan. Pecora's court manner is quiet, almost casual. Just when a witness least expects it, Lawyer Pecora will drop him into a trap. No loud bulldozer, he can be crisply sarcastic. Last week when one witness grew over-obvious about the 1929 stock crash, he cut him short with: "I've heard of that, too." He was recommended to the committee as a prosecutor who would not "play up publicity." But black...
...Soong, the Chinese Finance Minister, has cabled to Nanking* urging the Government not to conclude an armistice, because he hoped to persuade the American Government somehow to intervene if the campaign is extended to Peiping. We shall be jolly well careful not to be lured into this trap...
When a participant in a serious controversy resorts to cheap clap-trap for arguments and indulges in provocative diatribes, it is about time to wind it up. After the following brief comment I withdraw from the field, leaving it entirely to my opponent, if he chooses to further acquaint the readers of CRIMSON with the latest communistic anti-Gandhi invectives...
...Bliss, and whose father was William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city's pet cats, destruction of its strays). Last week the Society's Secretary...
...Author Dorothy Sayres has been a successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each...