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...proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result of a U. S. "imperialistic policy in trade and commerce as baneful in its effect as an imperialistic...
...height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev letter, British Laborites insisted it was a forgery. Little could be proved...
Duel. For Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...
Said he: "It is chiefly the press that has raised its voice loudest against the principle of medical ethics that places a taboo on advertising by the physician. It is readily admitted that the lifting of the ban . . . would result in a great financial gain to the press...
Threatened Strike. Locomotive engineers on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis took a strike vote as the result of a three-sided dispute on the representation of grievances involving the carriers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen. Similar strike votes were predicted for the Santa Fé, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific on the same issue, with the possibility of a spread of the trouble to eastern and southern systems. The U. S. Board of Mediation girded itself to prevent a big rail strike...