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...once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster General Brown was not a Harding Gangster, either, but he now controls the bulk of the party's patronage...
With the friendly relations of so many nations in the balance last week, the German foreign office issued an inevitable denial. But no steps were taken against Correspondent Knickerbocker. Organs friendly to the German government did not flay him. One bitter government critic, Nationalist Deputy Axel Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into print with a polemic against German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, accused him of clumsily letting slip the first opportunity beaten Germany has had to play off two of her former enemies against each other. He declared that Dr. Curtius could have wangled concessions for the Reich from both France...
Thus last week did Alfred A. Knopf, book publisher, flay four other book publishers who had made the astounding announcement that they would hereafter sell for $1 or $1.50 books exactly similar to those for which they had for years been demanding $2 or $3. The four price radicals were...
Angry silence filled the White House. President Hoover wanted to flay the Senate publicly for its treatment of his nominee. Wise political heads dissuaded him. Within two days he had decided upon a new man for the Supreme Court vacancy and, as nominee No. 91, sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Owen Josephus Roberts of Philadelphia...
...this, with 10,000,000 estimated for next year. President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them by a tax on baseball and other public sports. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians seized the opportunity to flay "canned" music once more. His refrain: "There will be no incentive for young musicians if 200 cheap musicians in Hollywood can supply all the music necessary for 60,000 theatres...