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...down by Colonel Lawrence to recount his adventures and the history ha had made. Then he lost the manuscript, rewrote 300,000 words. These were set up and an edition of eight copies printed, three copies being destroyed. By this conduct ? seemingly inspired by a genuine desire to restrict the tale of his personal adventures to the circle of his personal friends ? Colonel Lawrence created the impression that his book must contain devasting secrets. It did not; but the public got that idea, became ravenously curious, and has raised the Colonel's literary fame beyond all reason...
Professor Ferguson then showed that so long as the entire subject was touched upon, the original fields of concentration were too broad to be covered minutely, and it was considered necessary to restrict them. This resulted in the new alignment recently issued...
...Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...
Only three times since adopting the closure rule* in 1917 has the Senate enforced it. The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate. This banking bill, the most important since the Federal Reserve Act, was approved by the Senate, 71 to 17, on the day after the adoption of closure; was sent to President Coolidge. Soon he is expected to sign it. The Bill has been pushed around Congress in sundry forms...
...fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...