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...Debated for five solid days whether to consider the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. Senator Smith of South Carolina, who said lynching was necessary to protect "the sanctity of our womanhood,." was called to order by Mrs. Jessie Daniels Ames of Atlanta's Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Said she: "I am opposed to the Costigan-Wagner bill, but I am even more opposed to Southern Senators using Southern white women as a defense of lynching." Other Southern Senators, arguing not against the rape of women but against the rape of states' rights, remained adamant...
...current discussion of the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill, the Senate is playing with dynamite. Not even the degrading horror of lynch law can condone the interference of the federal government in a problem which from a practical and moral viewpoint is totally the affair of the individual states. A solicitous national government has in the past often burnt its fingers by sticking them into purely sectional affairs, and it would be shortsighted folly for it to do so once again...
...infuriated mob. Slow education in reverence for legal procedure can alone remove the curse. A self-righteous and strong-arm policy on the part of the Washington government can have no other outcome than inflaming an already irritated section of the country. There are already encouraging indications of the Costigan-Wagner bill floundering under the weight of its own quixotism...
...world surplus of 9,673,000 long tons. That very surplus, coupled with President Roosevelt's desire to help Cuban producers and to protect loud-squawking U. S. beet growers, had led the AAA to fix quotas on sugar shipments into the U. S. under the Jones-Costigan Act (TIME, April 30). To the quotas which Secretary Wallace fixed, last week's squeeze was largely...
...days when her father spent tens of thousands on machine guns and barbed wire to strew around the mines. But she is not rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress for tea. At 47 her dark hair is greying, the lines of her firm jaw broadening, but her blue...