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...Holt's Documents...
Democratic side have taken noticeably more care of their personal appearance since she arrived. Such bachelors as Rush Holt of West Virginia and Richard Russell of Georgia have been seen hovering near her desk. As the best-looking Senator whom her colleagues have ever seen, she is shown special consideration on all sides. In the press gallery some ill-bred wag suggested that the parliamentary inquiry most frequently in Senators' minds is: "Will the Senator from Louisiana yield...
Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...defend excavators everywhere by editorially calling the Gauley Bridge furore "fantastic bunk." On the other hand, "The time has come," declared that journal, "to bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily, nothing can be done...
...made Dictatorship what it is today. Currently the nearest approach to such an analysis is Mussolini's Italy by Dr. Herman Finer of the University of London, a useful work since its author has just spent a year in Italy and tried to be fair (Holt...