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...equanimity last week. For 13 years 5-5-3 has averted a disastrously expensive naval race, and all thinking Japanese know it. Last week the Imperial Government, realizing that millions of the Son of Heaven's subjects were deeply troubled, sought to reassure them by one of the crudest broadsides ever fired from Rengo, the semi-official news service...
...Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made two tart statements, one charging "politics of the crudest sort.'' the other declaring that he was being "railroaded" without the customary chance to refute the Government's tax claims. Last week he purred contentedly: "The fact that the grand jury reached a sound conclusion, notwithstanding the unusual methods pursued in my case, is proof of the good...
...Washington next day the onetime Secretary of the Treasury let fly one of the longest and angriest statements of his 79 years: "The action ... is politics of the crudest sort! I am as much in the dark as anyone. . . . For many months now a campaign of character-wrecking and abuse has been conducted against me. . . . I know there has been no evasion of taxes on my part...
...five long years Louisiana has been held fast in the political fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...
Last week lumbering, poker-faced Harry Sinclair (who is the crudest practical-joker among U. S. tycoons) again faced a circle of investigating Senators who wanted to know why the chairman of a competing oil company later merged with Sinclair Consolidated, had received a 2½% cut in the $12,000,000 profits of the 1928-29 Sinclair stockmarket pool. Prairie Oil's William Samuel Fitzpatrick had not been a syndicate member and the pool's manager Arthur Cutten had been able to shed no light on the transaction (TIME, Nov. 20). Haggard from a recent illness, Harry...