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...flouted" the Senate er "championed" Illinois, according to viewpoint. Illinois had elected him, the Senate must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
...dawn, Warden Smith's telephone rang. "The men want to come out," said a voice, "especially the men who are not in on this. If we surrender will you guarantee to punish only the leaders and that none of us will be beaten, abused or starved...
...said that since it was too rainy for any of the regular altar boys to come Jimmy could put on a cassock this once. So at evening benediction James Walsh stood up solemnly near the altar for a while. He enjoyed it greatly, but perhaps, he thought, God would punish him for his vanity...
Said President Simmons: "The full power of the Exchange will be used at all times to punish evasion or suppression of any essential facts or data [in answering the questionnaire...