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...Winds That Blow." Ever since the rate case began the I. C. C. has been bombarded with outside advice and suggestions. Propaganda for and against the roads flowed into its quasi-judicial headquarters in Washington. Boldest, most startling public statement on Ex Parte 103 was made fortnight ago by Philadelphia's Representative James Montgomery Beck, good friend of Pennsylvania R. R. who threatened to instigate Congressional action to strip the I. C. C. of its large powers unless it hastened to grant what the roads asked. When Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas read the Beck broadside he sat down...
What the President proceeded to say was considered by far the boldest speech of his career. Like Calvin Coolidge who, in his last days as President, took a fling at the European nations who were (and still are) complaining for reduction of their debts, President Doumergue took a fling at Germany. But first he uttered some very suave remarks indeed...
Enter the Press. Battling to oust Leader Baldwin are the two mightiest newslords in the empire. For sheer bawling blatancy, for staggering reversals of editorial policy overnight at the publishers' whim, for colossal nerve in pouring millions of pounds into the boldest circulation-grabbing schemes and for boundless ambition to rule the British Empire from the press rooms of Fleet Street, the newspaper chains of Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere are unique...
Prosecutor is George Zerdin Medalie, Jewish U. S. Attorney recently appointed to succeed Charles Henry Tuttle, an Episcopalian (TIME, Jan. 19). Mr. Medalie last week flayed the cinema scheme as "one of the boldest racketeering ventures that ever has been pulled at the expense of persons with religious and moral ideals...
Repealer Lemann. Boldest of all was short, swart Commissioner Lemann (pronounced "lemon"), law professor at Tulane University, onetime president of the New Orleans Bar Association, an independent Wet. He alone refused to sign the full report. Instead he filed a voluminous opinion of his own in which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground...