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...have always disliked the "smug" aura in which the editors of the CRIMSON cloak themselves and their policies. That the CRIMSON should set itself up as the final court of judgment over University Hall, the Faculty, and the undergraduates, causes me grave gastric disturbance...
...this calculation was conceded to be very small. Nevertheless, up to the Capitol, day after the House vote, marched Postmaster General Farley to lunch with Majority Leader Robinson, help hold the Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor to the late Bronson Cutting, whose vote bonuseers had counted on, listened obediently to Boss Farley's words...
...Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn hat and heavy chain of a British Lord Mayor. Then he pronounced him a Saint and a Sinner, summoned cameramen. Sinner LaGuardia, itchy under the wig, smiled feebly. Down upon his head fell a shower of popcorn...
Last week the champions of the A. F. of L. debouched in the U. S. Senate to quell the bitter opposition of industry to the Wagner Labor Bill. They were prepared for a desperate struggle. Instead, their opponents barely emerged from the cloak rooms. There was a short debate and then it was all over, the Wagner Labor Bill had passed, 63-to-12, sped on to the House for action. Industry and the A. F. of L. were left blinking in astonishment. What did the Senate's act portend...
...nothing but the last straw. If, as seems almost inevitable, the League of Nations fails to give justice to this fourth-rate African power, it can be definitely challenged as having failed to observe its obligations, and in the future can be regarded as merely a convenient cloak, concealing without conspicuous success the machinations of European diplomacy...