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...promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler demanded redress. Mrs. Patterson cleverly got her competing papers to publish a denial, without humiliating herself. She wangled an interview with Al Capone by walking unannounced into his Miami Beach home. She slept in a Salvation Army lodging house and wrote about it in her paper...
Friends of the B. E. F. set up the following facts in rebuttal: i) The ist Amendment to the Constitution ("Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances") does not specify that Congress must be in session for such assembly and petition. 2) The Government buildings from which veterans were ejected remain untouched and unworked after five weeks. 3) Every veteran arrested as a rioting Red has been released for lack of evidence; three veterans indicted for assaulting police had good overseas records...
...thousands of investors who bought Kreuger & Toll and International Match securities obtain redress from the bankers of these companies? Last week an answer to this much-asked question drew closer. In Manhattan one Florence Bramson, owner of five International Match $1,000 debenture bonds (worth $17.50 each last week), brought suit against Guaranty Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co., charging not fraud but misrepresentation of facts. Another suit against Lee, Higginson & Co. was filed last week by Alice F. and Edith S. Tilton of Milton, Mass., owners of Kreuger & Toll securities. They too charged misrepresentation, sought their money back...
...platitudinous to say that the lot of a young author is a hard one. But much of its difficulty springs from legal complications which ought to be abolished. Unscrupulous publishers, as a member of the League observed, can use the copyright for purely personal gain, since redress is ordinarily too expensive for the beginning author. Moreover, the development of the films has greatly enlarged the market for certain kinds of literature. The helplessness of the author, who has little or no control over his work after it is written, is correspondingly increased...
...care may be taken of our rooms." "At present," the petition reads, "the object seems to be to do as little as possible, and in as short a time as possible, and finding that our personal requests and remonstrances have no permanent effect, we adopt this mode of seeking redress...