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...spite of his inconsistency and in spite of his ponderous eloquence, Senator Ashurst succeeded in driving home one point which many opponents of the President's proposal ignored. Said he: "That bill is the mildest of all the bills that could have been introduced on the subject and I marvel, in the present circumstances, at the moderation of the President. . . . His proposal does not tinker with the Constitution. . . . There is nothing in the bill that in any way restricts the Supreme Court acting as it has in the past...
...have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...
...London last week at Clarence House the big Naval Limitation Conference (see cut) was once more deadlocked when Japan's Admiral Nagano "placed a seal of death" upon even the mildest British proposal, namely, that all governments concerned frankly disclose, to each other what ships they intend to build in the next six years. The Conference announced that all its deadlocks are "in a most friendly atmosphere," adjourned over the holidays...
They were let off by Judge Ulrich with sentences averaging three years each, by far the mildest in the Kirov case. Russians shrugged. The Gay-pay-oo, they observed, is an invincible state within the State. Even after confessing what amounted to collusion in the killing of Stalin's friend Kirov, Comrade Medved of the Gay-pay-oo will go scot free in exactly three years...
...spend as he likes for re-employment? (See col. 1.) And how will NRA codes, each "the law of the land," yet none made by Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when he declared that the decision would be wholesome because it would make Congress "have due regard to Constitutional limitations." Sternest bewarist was Senator Borah who cried...