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Last week Nebraska Republicans renominated Senator Norris handsomely over Mr. Stebbins. Senator Norris' campaign cost $2,620. Contributors: $200 from himself, $1,000 from Republican Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico; $1,000 from Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; $500 from Judson King, Washington liberal. In the November election Senator Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon...
Last autumn the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read...
...Philandering son of a wealthy business man Rod La Rocque is just a trifle moist. As an exemplar of the fine art of seduction he leaves much to be desired, and the objects of his villiany, Barbara Stanwyck and Betty Bronson do not add anything in the way of merit to a thoroughly poor production. If Betty Bronson in particular could have forseen her future she would have stopped while the public was still applauding "Peter...
...duty, of course, not preference which prompted the Senator's actions. Against his will, the Senate had heeded the plea of New Mexico's Harvard-taught Senator Bronson Cutting, and by amendment removed from the Tariff Bill a provision under which Customs agents could censor imported literature. As ammunition to make the Senate reverse itself in the name of public morals, Senator Smoot had obtained from the Customs Bureau 40 of the "rawest" foreign volumes which had leaked into the U. S. Excerpts from these he was prepared to read to the Senate as concrete arguments for censorship...
...BENJAMIN BRONSON, M. D. Westfield, Mass...