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...dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota of truth in such a thing, and it is a deliberate attempt by those other people to throw a dust cloud when they know their ship is sinking. We have a red herring in every campaign, and apparently this is the first such attempt. The opposition is using this unholy issue to catch votes...
They were disappointed. Joined by Justice Roberts, Conservative Justices Butler, McReynolds, Sutherland and Van Devanter revealed that the passage of 13 years had changed their opinions not one iota, that they still believed in the right of women to work for any wages they could get. "This court," announced Justice Butler in the majority opinion, "after thoughtful attention to all that was suggested against that [1923] decision, adhered to it as sound...
...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
...slim, grey agent of the Recording Angel scans all the newspapers which reach his Philadelphia office, meticulously snips out every item about every suicide. Between times Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania statistician, writes to health officials and registrars of principal U. S. cities, requesting every iota of news about suicides. In this fashion he accumulates one of the most reliable records on earth concerning that army of unhappy souls who would dissipate their troubles in death...
...Government of Liberia resents the very thought of surrendering one iota of its independence...