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...balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes the State from endeavoring to give it effect. . . . To that extent, the citizens of each State are still masters...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...futility of police action. It is not always easy for a middle-aged constable to round up a gang of fourteen-year-olds, and there is absolutely nothing that he can do with them once he has rounded them up. If the Cambridge police can keep adult criminals under control, they are doing all that is asked of them. The children represent a sociological problem that belongs to the municipality, the churches, and Harvard University...
Looking forward toward the federal government for larger control of public health in the future, the physicians also stress the need for a reorganization of existing federal medical agencies under a single bureau in the governmental heirarchy, and that in planning out future developments in this field the work be put in the hands of experts...