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...erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands. At the same time the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was preparing to file a suit in Washington to restrain Secretary Wallace from enforcing the Costigan-Jones sugar-quota law in Hawaii. The planters' contention was--and it appears quite justifiable--that the Hawaiian Islands had received an unfairly low quota. But the merits of the suit do not matter. What does matter is that Mr. Sturges gave a speech over...
...producer whose hobbies are trapshooting and golf. His golf cards average go, his trapshooting scores, 83 out of 100. More enthusiastic than adept, Lawrence Dana, when he passed the mile-long firing line of the American Trapshooting Association at Vandalia, Ohio during tournament week in 1930, could barely restrain himself from getting off his train and entering the Grand target championship (fired at 16 yd. with no handicap...
...venerable Scottish distiller, who makes 70% of Britain's whiskey, could not restrain himself from expressing astonishment that the U. S. Government, "which still has an unbalanced budget," taxes its domestic spirits only $2 per gal., against Britain's tax of 72 shillings sixpence...
While Attorney General Cummings was not "disposed to challenge" the collapse of his prize case, he could not restrain a political instinct to take one parting crack at Mr. Mellon. Ignoring the fact that he had carried the tax charges into the headlines first, Mr. Cummings declared: "Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon...
...King of Spain's order closing the river to U. S. navigation, Washington declared: "The emigrations to the waters thereof are astonishingly great; and chiefly of that description of people who are not very susceptible to law and order and good government. It will be difficult to restrain people of this class from enjoying natural advantages...