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...ominously silent on all the Wickersham recommendations. Senator Norris insisted that they required "a great deal of study." Senator La Follette was already in open opposition. He called the Report a ''wedge being driven into the Constitution." Only such unswerving Drys as Ohio's Senator Fess gave blanket approval...
...Nomination by Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio of Senator Borah as chairman of the prospective joint committee of Congress to study Prohibition enforcement machinery. "His discussion shows he is familiar with every aspect of the problem. He could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared. As a clerk slowly droned names that did not respond, Vice President Curtis brought down his gavel, announced that the Senate stood adjourned sine...
Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year...
...Turks' ranks were Allen of Kansas, Glenn of Illinois, Goldsborough of Maryland, Hastings of Delaware, Hatfield of West Virginia, Hebert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...