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...biggest life insurance failure last year. Eight of the nine others were either Illinois companies or their subsidiaries. Tenth was a small Negro company in Washington. Intensely jealous of their good name, insurance men throughout the land have roundly flayed Illinois' insurance laws in general, their lax enforcement in particular...
...ashore in protest at the Government's pay cuts. Australian officers worried. Just so did the British naval mutiny at Invergordon start last year (TIME. Sept. 28, 1931), an affair that became more serious than British papers have yet admitted, and according to British standards, Australian discipline is notoriously lax.* Apparently Australian tempers are better. After threatening the Government the men returned to quarters, the fleet sailed for training at Jervis Bay. Minister of Defense Sir George Pierce announced that the sailors' pay cuts would be "eased...
Eastman Dissent. Such a lax attitude by a majority of the I. C. C. produced a stinging dissent from the merger plan by Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman. As the "radical" member of the Commission, Mr. Eastman delivered a long economic treatise in which he declared...
...practically universal respect. Utterly conscientious in administering his job, he is incapable of political ballplaying. Many a manufacturer school director or transport operator has learned that "The Chief" may submit to being called by his first name, but is quick to meet each & every request for an easy or lax interpretation of Government rules with: "The Air Commerce Act says...
...with the principals cooped up on the Alton, the Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned...