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...just appointed by President Harding, issued a sweeping injunction restraining strikers all over the nation from meeting, picketing, agitating against their employers. The struggle to prevent the Senate's confirmation of Judge Wilkerson to the appellate court has been waged for the past two months inside and outside Senator Borah's Judiciary subcommittee...
Labor's plea, eloquently voiced for the 21 rail unions and the A. F. of L., came to Senator Borah's committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...
Before closing its long-drawn hearing last week, Senator Borah's subcommittee took a sudden and surprising tack. It wanted to know what the whole country has wanted to know since last summer? the facts surrounding the "deal" which U. S. Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson made with Capone. How much or how little did Judge Wilkerson know about the understanding before it was brought out in court...
Having celebrated the centenary of Goethe's death with lectures at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, white-maned Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann sailed for Germany and home. Between lectures he had found time to visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana at Cambridge, Senator Borah in Washington, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending...
What Sir John proceeded to do, as a few astute Britons frankly pointed out, was this: he pressed upon the League the Asiatic policy which Mr. Stimson enunciated in his letter to Senator Borah (TIME. March 7). Thus Sir John tucked some exceedingly strange bedfellows into the League bed, but at the same time he kept Mother Britain's apron clear, no matter what may happen. Blame for the policy which the League proceeded to adopt was promptly heaped by Tokyo upon Washington. "Mr. Stimson," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman acidly, "is leading the League by the nose...