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...spotting" service. And from 1927 to 1931 these few companies extracted from the railroads $9,000,000 in rebates for performing for themselves a job which they would not permit the railroads to do. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, ruling such payment illegal, ordered the carriers to cease & desist. Wall Street chuckled at the list of manufacturers immediately affected by the I. C. C. order: almost all were plants or subsidiaries of three notoriously hard bargainers-U. S. Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Henry Ford...
With these words the Administration last week offered veterans a new bonus of a round half-billion dollars provided they would desist, at least for a time, from hounding the Government for cash. The offer appeared to sprout out of a White House heart-to-heart between President Roosevelt and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi early in the week...
...Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of civil marriages. Last week Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, super-devout Roman Catholic, ordered justices of the peace in that State, who hold their jobs at his pleasure, to cease & desist from performing marriage ceremonies, even for Protestants. The fact that certain J. P.'s are legally empowered to mumble a few words over any couple that pays $10 did not bother the pious Governor. He declared: "This sacred ceremony should be performed only by clergymen. If any marriages are performed by justices who come before me for renewal...
When the Saar plebiscite commission asked France and Germany to desist from broadcasting Saar propaganda for 24 hours before the poll last week, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin complied. Realmleader Adolf Hitler ordered every German station hooked into an unceasing day & night Saar broadcast, the usual time signals between programs being replaced by the first few bars of the plebiscite song, "GERMAN IS THE SAAR...
...White House got around to requesting Schenley Distilleries, which printed a big picture of the President in an advertisement on the anniversary of Repeal to cease and desist from doing so in future. Before making the request, Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early called up Alcohol Administrator Choate and found that use of the picture had not been "authorized." called up Attorney General Cummings to ask whether Schenley could not be prosecuted. In all the maze of New Deal laws the Attorney General could find none that entitled him to sue the distillers for their deed...