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First setback to the Squires career was a royal commission appointed to investi gate the young Premier's acts in 1923 ? with the discreet result that he was permitted to retire from politics to his nourishing legal practice. In 1928 he came back, has been Premier ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Squires & Lady Unseated | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood to the rising Soviet sun; their friends, enemies, mistresses and Bunny's "Wobbly" comrades for whom great sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclairism | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...days). Mr. Deneen and the other defenders of Mr. Smith insisted that he be seated first and investigated after ward. Mr. Deneen cited many a precedent,* challenged the right of the Senate to deprive Illinois of its legally appointed, constitutional representative. Senator Reed of Missouri, who had last summer investi gated Mr. Smith's public utility campaign fund, summed up the case against him. Said Mr. Reed: "It is absurd to say the oath must first be administered, then a hearing held and expulsion take place. That would seem to be a rather ridiculous performance. We have held a hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Right! | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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