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...have reason to believe that an assault is being made by secret means, supported by the resources of a great empire, aimed at the destruction of our system of government. . . . The Federal Govern- ment has no police force available for our protection. ... A force ought to be provided...
...leaders against the tariff were the Scripps-Howard chain (25 papers) and the Hearst chain (24 papers). By word and picture they flayed "the billion-dollar Grundy Bill." The Scripps-Howard newspapers interviewed Henry Ford, quoted him as saying the bill would "stultify business and industry and increase unemploy-ment." Scripps-Howard statisticians in Washington broadcast to all papers in the chain doleful stories of what would happen if H. R. 2667 became law. An example : "The Grundy Tariff Bill will dog Americans' footsteps from the cradle to the grave?and after. The tomb will be no sanctuary from...
...Federal Power Commission, set up in 1920, as an orphan agency to control billions of dollars worth of U. S. water power rights. Its job is to license power companies to construct plants along navigable streams, to check their investments, to regulate interstate power rates, to maintain govern-ment options to buy back licensed plants after 50 years. The nominal commissioners are the Secretaries of War, Interior & Agriculture. They sit about five hours a year. The actual work of the commission is carried on by Frank E. Bonner, its secretary, Charles A. Russell, its solicitor, and William V. King...
...station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First-Lady-Elect of Mexico, Senora Carmen de Ortiz Rubio...
...first choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose, short story by his one-time (New York World) colleague Columnist Heywood Broun. Last spring he announced that he had shelved Candle in favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved...