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...working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton's President Dodds, whose best thought was to turn the whole problem over to an independent commission. Hence after three days of opposition testimony, the President's opponents found themselves still in the plight of Judiciary Committeeman Logan...
...month ago, was boosted for the fourth time this year to 16?, while in London, where speculation in metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that Business Pundit Bertie Charles Forbes quoted level-headed President Shattuck Gates of big Phelps Dodge Corp. as declaring: "This is no time to whoop things up, to send prices of copper skyrocketing. . . . The industry was making steady progress in a satisfactory way. It would be a pity to bring about hectic conditions which in the nature...
...unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected, possibly in a campaign where some other issue is paramount. Said he: "I am confirmed in this view by the spectacle of American liberals, so bent upon...
...much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune made $54,329, whereas older and more famed Herald Tribune Columnist Mark Sullivan drew only $23,527, Franklin Pierce Adams only...
...omnivorous reader with a sharp memory, Pundit Brisbane possessed a great stock of odds & ends of information, like the hodge-podge of an almanac, which was mightily impressive to his readers. He had a Wellsian feeling for science and material progress, often pondered on the vastness of the material universe, as contrasted with the minuteness of man. For a King Features symposium just before his death, Mr. Brisbane typically wrote: "The successful completion of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million...