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...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...
...than he reported, it asked $3,075,103 in additional taxes and penalties. Among the important issues that this brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages...
...battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority, at least the Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt's conception that...
What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate...
...Rome, Cardinal Simeoni, head of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, with jurisdiction over the U. S. which was still a missionary land,† heard of Father McGlynn, condemned his views and summoned him to the Vatican to account for them. Rebel McGlynn ignored the summons (and three later ones), was accordingly ordered excommunicated in 1887. For five years the priest, a devout Catholic, was unable to say or attend mass, was faced with the prospect, unless he recanted, of ending his days without the ministrations of the Church. But a substantial body of Catholics, clergy as well as laity, remained...