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...remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the psychologists exhibitionism, or if anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot even resent criticism of the movement now, for I realize that to do so is pride on my part...
...Tribune and "Herex" (both priced at 10?) propose to protect themselves against the 5? tabloid. Licensed newsstands in Chicago all are built with two display shelves. Copies of the Tribune are stacked in two piles on the upper shelf; the Herex on the lower. No newsstand owner would dare disturb that arrangement without permission of either paper. All too familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call a meeting of representatives of the three newspapers in City Hall. Angry words flew. Would the Tribune or Herex...
...legal replica of the Sugar Institute. If Lawyers Fly & Rice, who are directed by Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell and U. S. District Attorney George Z. Medalie, win their case, a victorious Government is likely to proceed, hammer & tongs, against dozens of associations. Thus the case may disturb a larger proportion of industry and commerce. It is in no way similar to many of the anti-trust suits pending which in-clude criminal actions against racketeers charged with intimidating competitors...
...Japanese exclusion act. In recent years the opinion has spread that the exclusion was unnecessary, and even unjust. The notion that Japanese immigration furnished dangerous competition for American labor was gradually being dispelled. The two hundred Japanese who would be admitted yearly by the quota system could hardly disturb American labor even in the depression...
...hour: Must wages come down everywhere and drastically? In his eloquent address, Bethlehem's President Schwab had said: "We have had a stabilized wage rate since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This ... is an outstanding example of the ability of business leadership...