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...lobbyists." He explained that the Anti-Saloon League, exclusive of State branches, spent $273,049.14 last year, that a deficit of $3,132.32, the first in many a year, resulted. The League was given $685 in bad checks in 1929. He balked at disclosing the contributors to the League lest they be "annoyed" by publicity. Lobbyist Mc-Bride's exposition of the League's activities...
Beyond a doubt the Viceroy had advised Mr. MacDonald that St. Gandhi must be taken by surprise, lest his arrest lead to violence on the spot, and the Prime Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
...Lest anyone should suppose that this "parity" was worked out with the aid the once famed but now forgotten "Scientific Naval Yardstick" called for by President Hoover (TIME, May 6, et seq.), senator Robinson said: "Prolonged investigation of the subject led to the conclusion that no scientific basis exists for measuring the difference in value between large 8-inch gun cruisers and vessels carrying 6-inch guns...
Like the reputable deacons of many churches in these United States, prudish, attempting not to teach the seventh commandment lest the word adultery contaminate our youth, so TIME readers fear the bullish features of No. 1 Thug...
...Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a means of improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite as badly by manufacturers...