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...Reds are allowed to attack openly such venerable institutions as Wall Street itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin cannot wait until similar Communistic chains are laid across the backs of free Americans...
Last week to the amazement of Democrats and the joy of arch-Republican Publisher McCormick, Rhode Islanders squashed the possibility of a convention by a vote of 98,383-to-87,034. More amazing still were returns showing that, had the convention been held. Democrats would have controlled it by four votes...
Following the premiere of Jefferson Davis, nobody publicly rose to question the anomaly of employing Federal funds to present a waxworks glorification of an arch-enemy of the Union, but the venture was damned on practically all other counts.* "Jefferson Davis," observed the New York Sun, "from the standpoint of playwriting, direction and acting would do little credit to the sophomore class of any second-rank high school. . . . Actors and others connected with the art of the drama most certainly are entitled to their share of the assistance the Government is extending to the jobless, but taxation plus boredom...
When Mr. Hughes finished, Justice Brandeis read a concurring opinion in which he and Justices Roberts, Stone & Cardozo agreed with the Chief Justice, except that they did not believe that the preferred stockholders of Alabama Power Co. should even have been allowed to sue. Justice McReynolds, arch-Conservative of the Court, was all alone in a dissenting belief that TVA was unconstitutional...
That was too much even for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, which lashed out: "To snap an informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...