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...Federal Trade Commission, the U. S. Tariff Commission. The most vigorous action so far has been the application by the first-named for an injunction against the New York Sugar Exchange. A host of local political figures are also joining in the search for the guilty parties, notably Mayor Hylan, who has urged a consumers' boycott. Several women's organizations have announced a ferocious willingness to abstain from icings on cakes and other luxuries, and promise mass meetings and other mighty events in the near future...
Many parties, first and last, are cited as responsible for the advance in sugar prices, including " the profiteers " (cf. remarks of Mayor Hylan), the Republican tariff (cf. remarks of various Democratic leaders), Mr. Hoover, the Department of Commerce, Cuban producers, the " monopoly" of sugar refiners, speculators in raw sugar on the Sugar Exchange and " supply and demand." The part in sugar's rise generally assumed to have been played by the Government has added no little heat and fury to the controversy, thereby obscuring more fundamental causes...
Albert D. Lasker, Chairman of the Shipping Board, became quite excited and wrote a letter to Mayor Hylan of New York when he learned that the Government's great ship, Leviathan, might not be able to find a pier in Manhattan...
William R. Hearst: "In honor of my son George, recently married, my wife and I gave a costume dance at our New York home, No. 137 Riverside Drive. Those present included Biddles, Bonapartes, Harrimans, Gerards, Wanamakers, Ziegfelds. Also Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire, Marie Doro. John F. Hylan, said to be my best friend politically, did not attend...
...mind finds its complete expression in the Higgins " Patriotic Textbook" Bill in the Legislature of the State of New York, which provides for the censoring of textbooks in history by the elimination of statements uncomplimentary to the Fathers. That bill is generally supposed to have the backing of Messrs. Hylan and Hirschfield, and its purposes and probable effects are too clear to require demonstration...