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...protective committee of longs, smarting from their scolding, howled for a more drastic penalty from the shorts. Said its Chairman Carlos G. Garcia: "This ruling is extremely unfair. It shows the rankest kind of favoritism on the part of the Exchange officials. It shows extreme partiality toward a group of professional traders, and convinces us that the public has no chance on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
...Marriage is not the culmination of romantic love as is conventionally supposed. It should be primarily a system whereby a home may be provided for children-and making a home has nothing, or very little, to do with sexual love." To most normal Anglo-Saxons such talk was the rankest social heresy and to most U. S. homes Earl Russell, for all his gift of persuasive language, was nothing but a reprehensible old lecher...
...causes, the Nazis' chauvinism is clearly part of an emotional appeal to national pride. That aspect of the Hitler program no intelligent person could approve. If it represents the degree of a sanity in the program as a whole, then Germany is being made the victim of the rankest demagogism...
...this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance, cramming Indiana's "birds of a feather...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...