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...discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken out $20,000 worth of income tax insurance on behalf of an advertising agent named Alfred Bates. Alfred Bates was one of Jim Thomas' most intimate friends. Another Thomas intimate is Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative M. P., theatrical producer and insurance underwriter. Sir Alfred had bet heavily against a rise in the income tax, only to hedge on all these bets the morning of Chancellor Chamberlain's Budget Speech and add $39,000 worth of Budget insurance on his own account...
...Post does not ordinarily butt in as a critic of the policies of its contemporaries. But Hearst's fake is so abhorrent it shames the whole newspaper business. It is so dangerous that it can lead to a miscarriage of justice. . . . Where was Publisher William Randolph Hearst while his tabloid was smearing the memory of a dead woman in a faked story...
Other present difficulties are the fact that the U. S. Highway 3 signs point the same direction as the "Do Not Enter" signs, and the fact that the street cars and electric busses continue to butt against the traffic...
There is no reason why confidence should again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover...
...Willard Hotel, little or no money and an organization made up mainly of William Edgar Borah. One eager volunteer came around early in the campaign: snaggle-toothed Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York. No candidate's dream of the ideal political ally is "Ham" Fish, the butt of many a Congressional jest, the ardent runner-down-of-Reds. The statesman from Idaho warily shook Mr. Fish's large, aristocratic hand, accepted his services but offered him no official campaign post...