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Missouri's present Legislature, packed with city ward heelers and cracker-box statesmen, has set an all-time record for brazen corruption. Grasping members developed "sandbag" legislation to a fine art, used such bills to shake down businessmen and labor unions for everything from new suits of clothes to folding money. Two Legislators were convicted for accepting bribes; the grand jury which indicted them apologized for not trapping more...
From the black-windowed, sandbag-roofed Manhattan offices of the New York Federal Reserve Bank last week came a jolting report: in February, New York City department-store inventories were 49% above a year ago. Manhattan is the No. 1 U.S. shopping center, but hinterland stores are buying too: total U.S. department-store inventories are well over the 100 mark (1923-25 = par), against 73 a year ago, 54 at depression's bottom...
...made a simple challenge: let the Legislature investigate itself. He would appear, testify under oath, bring witnesses, produce evidence. Hay, reading his notes by a flashlight held by his niece, Mary Hay, attacked "sandbag" bills...
...Louis Post-Dispatch named other "sandbag" operations...
...Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None of this rough treatment incited Mr. Barlow's Glmite to explode...