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When Judge Parker's friends charged that his critics were playing small politics in opposing his confirmation, a neat retort was turned up in the form of a confidential letter to the White House which had inadvertently got into the judiciary committee files. This letter was from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon, a North Carolinian, to Walter Newton, political secretary to President Hoover, written three days after the death of Justice Sanford. Excerpts: "North Carolina gave President Hoover 65,000 majority. It carries more hope of future permanent alignment with the Republican party than any other...
...closed he turned spitefully on the Vare machine, charged it with saddling Philadelphia with a huge debt, with "feeding at the public trough." His charges were reminiscent of those that George Wharton Pepper, Mellon senatorial candidate, made in vain against Mr. Vare four years ago. Always quick with a retort, Varemen accused Grundy of helping to "unload" on Pennsylvania some land at Valley Forge under the false pretense that it was George Washington's camping ground...
...have no intention of resigning. Why should I?" was Mr. Huston's defiant retort to those pressing President Hoover for his removal...
Senators, Wet and Dry, were perturbed, for different reasons, at these developments. Their suspicion grew that perhaps these S. O. B. arrests were in some dark manner a veiled retort by President Hoover or his subordinates to senatorial criticism of the uncertain Hoover handling of Prohibition enforcement. They vowed they would not be intimidated by fear of exposure as Dry drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals...
...jewing" prices down so low, that only by sweatshop methods can the little manufacturers meet the stiff competition. They profess sympathy with their.striking employes but claim they cannot accede to their wage and time demands until the jobbers agree to cease patronizing and encouraging sweatshop contractors. The jobbers retort that they are bound to seek the best possible prices, sweatshops or no sweatshops, to induce the public...