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Under the caption Letters in your worthy magazine of Dec. 30, one of your readers, a Mr. David James of Chicago, Ill., undertakes to flay the House of Representatives and your magazine unjustly...
Motion to flay denied and lower house affirmed...
...natural, healthy smells are not repugnant to the slightly beaked nose of His Excellency General Ismet Pasha, now for the third time Prime Minister of Turkey, onetime victorious Commander-in-Chief on the Turkish western front in the odoriferous war with Greece. Last week bristling General Ismet decided to flay the faint, insipid, artificial perfumes which Turkish ladies buy with the guarantee: Fresh, and Direct from Paris. Said Ismet with a soldier's scornful snort: "The Government will consent no longer to having the daughters of Turkey perfumed with expensive foreign extracts...
...First to flay Farm Board Chairman Legge for his conference with Chairman Barnes was Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee who wrote...
...Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson...