Word: ernment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courier-Journal's letter column there appeared last week a communication which roundly flayed the State Legislature, with the intimation that Speaker Woodfin Ernest Rogers Sr. was accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name...
...Government there were two lawyers, for the defense 50. The Gov- ernment's brief was a bound volume of 520 pages, the defense's a volume of 1,000 pages. The testimony filled 10,000 pages and the exhibits filled a 10 ft. shelf. The action was brought in 1931 and the six- month trial in 1932 was one of the longest on record. There was no jury, no spectators. Concluded last year, U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al. was the most important anti-trust case since the dissolution of Standard...
...days later, eminent counsel for the State of Prussia, the State of Bavaria and the State of Baden began an unprecedented suit before the German Supreme Court, claiming that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this suit, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week, will either whitewash Herren von Hindenburg and von Papen or brand them as Constitution-breakers in the eyes of German voters...
...what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second is what we call 'made work.' . . . Home re lief is a dole. 'Made work' is a dole in disguise. . . . Private charity can go only a certain distance, when the Federal Gov ernment must step...
...float during the last decade merely on the strength of reductions secured by foreign powers on their War Debts to the U. He hoped thereby to start a backfire against any further debt reduction. If could, he wanted to show that private financiers were anxious to bring about go ernment debt reduction for selfish re sons. He wanted to show how the U. S. had been what its businessmen and ban ers are now sheepishly admitting, "the world's champion sucker...