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...been parading their objections to the Stock Exchange control bill before House and Senate Committees. By last week they had a warm feeling that they had made good headway toward modification when Ferdinand Pecora retired with his squad of bright young legalites to round off the measure's harshest features. A new draft will be submitted this week. Probable revisions include...
President Roosevelt let it be known that he had not read this measure before it was introduced last week, that he was neither for it nor against it. Which was taken to mean that the road was clear for modification of at least the harshest features. But just before the bill was introduced, the President did send a special message to Congress, urging some sort of regulation for both commodity and stock exchanges. Excerpts...
While Samuel Insull was in flight, his long-nosed brother Martin John Insull was tossing on a cot in one of the dingiest, harshest jails in Canada. There was no running water. The meals were terrible. He was not allowed to puff his pipe...
...word, and your great Machiavelli said that unarmed prophets perish!'' He concluded with these ringing words : ''Fascist Italy . . . cannot be attacked without mortal risk. Fascist Italy, fully armed, will give [he did not say to whom, meant France] her simple alternative of precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio, on a balcony...
When laws are passed in the U. S. prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little...