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...judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice, and that in making laws they respect the spirit...
...high as in 1929, that weekly earnings are 90% as high and living costs only 83% as high, it would advise its members to cut hours from 40 to 36 a week and raise wages to make up the difference. The Chamber includes the whole industry ex cept Ford. While it was in session Ford announced that it would restore its famed $5 per day minimum for all workers. Thus did the entire industry court favor with the Administration by payroll increases. Day after this first move, Senator Wagner's National Labor Board opened strike hearings in Washington...
Many an old and conservative institution has altered its whole way of doing business in an effort to put an anchor or two to windward in a sea of liability. Many a bank has refused to sell bonds ex cept over the counter in its own office, refused to give any information about them by mail. Blyth & Co.. in selling 147,500 shares of Kingsbury Breweries Co.; Manitowoc, Wis., issued a prospectus giving the com pany's earnings for May as $107,719 but added: "It should be recognized that the present margin of profit . . . is unusually large...
Before Hearst- In none of the third generation is there visible anything-ex-cept the geniality-of the extraordinary character of whom William Randolph Hearst was the only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia...
...Philippine constitution would be prepared at Manila and approved by Congress. The U. S. would retain administrative control for five years during which trade relations would gradually change through an increasing tariff. After the is landers had tasted economic freedom, a plebiscite would be held which would ac cept or reject complete political inde pendence. And Hoover. Not until Henry Lewis Stimson went to Manila in 1927 was much done to prepare the Philippines for independence. Governor General Leonard Wood ruled with a mailed fist, antagonized the natives, scoffed the idea of ever letting the islands go. Governor Stimson took...