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Scribners for June is a good collection: mostly the roughage or bran of the intellectual diet. There is a series of strong arguments supporting the American Congress by F. H. LaGuardia. That self-conscious body is now getting on without his official help. There is an excellent article by A. A. Berle, Jr., member of the "brain-trust," titled, "The High Road for Business," which asks of American business leaders something obviously beyond their power, social responsibility, and this for the purpose of business salvation...
...last week of a coalition in the national House of Representatives. Opposed to a 2½% levy on manufacturers in the budget-balancing revenue bill, this bloc wrenched the legislation away from its sponsors and proceeded to mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth should be conscripted to balance the budget...
...Passed (363-to-13) a bill by New York's LaGuardia to curb injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow-dog'' contracts; sent it to conference...
Kinds of Wetness. Persons rather than policies define the degrees of Wetness. The vociferous militant Wet is represented by such Senators as Maryland's Tydings, Wisconsin's Elaine, such Congressmen as New York's LaGuardia, Michigan's Clancy. Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck typifies the Constitutional Wet who often subordinates his legal convictions to party loyalty. Silent Wets biding their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton...
...Yost's appointment caused menacing rumblings from the Wet wing of the G. O. P. First to protest was Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York: "Chairman Fess can't dry up the Republican party. . . . Mrs. Yost will be only a temporary director of women's activities because we won't stand for it. . . . There'll be a Wet explosion at the next national convention." Major Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, loudly mocked Chairman Fess's attempts to eliminate Prohibition as an issue...