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...record for swimming San Francisco's Golden Gate (about a mile and an eighth) is 20 min., 44 sec. A few weeks ago the Olympic Club's Distance Swimmer Leslie Godfrey ("Buster"') Olds decided to have a shot at this 18-year-old mark. Horse Trainer Ritchie Roberts boasted that his 12-year-old, five-gaited horse, Blackie, could do better, made...
...Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of trustbusting, announced that he was bringing the A. M. A. before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted to prevent "qualified...
...days later, Trust-Buster-in-Chief Arnold, who knows the value of publicity, got together with Mr. Cummings and put out a statement making their position clear. There was no earthly reason, they said, even though they were conducting a criminal anti-trust suit, why they should not also consider any "practical solution" which was "of major and immediate benefit to the industry, to competitors and to the public...
...Trust-Buster Jackson will now presumably start over again with another grand jury in another Federal district. Meanwhile last week his boss, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, took the matter seriously enough to send a protest to the House Judiciary Committee. Terming the case "not an isolated instance of arbitrary, unjust and unfair conduct on the part of Judge Geiger." Mr. Cummings declared, "this course of conduct is so obstructive to the administration of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your attention...
...secretary of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers, an A. F. of L. union whose president, Max Zaritzky, is personally friendly to C. L O. State Chairman is Vice President Luigi Antonini of the C. I. O. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a voluble Italian who wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew Armstrong, vice president of the A. F. of L.'s well-intrenched Printing Pressmen's Union...