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Washington's first shock, at the nature of Mr. Childs's findings, was succeeded by its second, as to how he had made them. Court dignity as well as obvious conventions naturally prohibit members from gossiping about each other to the press. Nonetheless, Mr. Childs is such a good friend of Justice Harlan F. Stone that by last week he and Justice Stone's office both felt called upon to deny that Mr. Stone had been Mr. Childs's chief source of information. By this time Scripps Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper had written a column corroborating...
...This week SEC ruled that, after Feb. 8, short sales of most securities must not be made at prices at or below the last sale price. The New York Stock Exchange floor rules already prohibit short sales below the last price...
...Washington there were definite signs that the curtain was coming down on what Correspondent Jay Franklin called "hot aeronautics" and "the prima donna type of aviator." The House Naval Affairs Committee prepared to consider legislation which would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From...
...abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting in touch with the opposition and finding out their objections to the 13-year-old proposal, which read: "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age." Mr. Vandenberg finally edited this text to read: "The Congress shall have power to limit and prohibit the employment for hire of persons under 16 years...
...were not rotten. Our effort is to learn why biological science has not obtained and maintained its proper place in our schools, and why great biologic truth is so little possessed by our people. We have yet to search the motivation of those several instances of State laws which prohibit the teaching of evolution. It was traditional religion that thus invoked the heavy hand of legislation. Elsewhere, without invoking the law but with its extended and varied influence, traditional religion is now effecting a widespread repression of the teaching of this central principle of biology in our public schools...