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Only occasionally did Senator Harrison dip into this flow of testimony. Once he got a vigorous assent from Mr. Duffield when he asked: "If the coming special session got to work, composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back...
Under the chairmanship of Professor Hall, the Harvard committee launched its drive among the faculty last night, with an appeal mailed to about 1,200 officers of the University. With the assent of the Corporation, the committee is asking the salaried officers of the University to make voluntary contributions. Obligation of Faculty...
...Simplified, strengthened, deflated and purified," Il Duce said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
Year ago Colorado stroked its chin thoughtfully but nodded assent when Fred G. Bonfils, astute publisher of the incredibly blatant Denver Post, proposed that State auto license No. 1 be bestowed annually on "Denver's most useful citizen." He wangled the scheme through Secretary of State Charles M. Armstrong, got license No. i away from a Mrs. E. E. Sommers whose husband had held it many years, and grandiloquently bestowed it on Miss Emily Griffith, sweet-faced, grey-haired founder of Denver's Opportunity School. "Henceforth," blared the Post, "it will be a sign that...
...alarmist irresponsibility but it would be highly negligent to gloss over the stark and bitter realities of the social situation and to ignore the imminent perils in further advance of our heavy technical machinery over crumbling roads and shaking bridges. There are times when silence is not neutrality but assent...