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...Four of California (Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington), organizers of the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific and innumerable West Coast companies, seem the most arrogant, most shameless of them all. Last week their group portrait appeared in a 424-page book which combined careful reports of skulduggery with excellent characterizations...
...Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to investigate not only him but also the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for "gross abuse" of its authority in "a shameless political conspiracy engineered by the Republican leadership ... a barrage of poison...
...parade. Last week, crashing over the heads of paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly ripped into the reviewing stand. A Puerto Rican Senator and 30 others dropped. A National Guard officer fell, fatally wounded. The shooters were Nationalist agitators who had denounced the celebration as a "shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. When police had restored order, killing one Nationalist, Governor Winship, unhurt, congratulated the excited crowd on "standing firm," called it "a most convincing proof that American institutions are understood here...
...which one-anti-trust legislation-was left out of his message to the Special Session two months ago. This week, the President omitted another-Regional Planning-recommended for enactment 1) the Farm Bill, 2) a wages-&-hours bill and 3) modernized anti-trust laws. Of the first: "It is shameless misrepresentation to call this a policy of scarcity. It is in truth insurance before the fact instead of Government subsidy after the fact." Of the second (which the House sent back to Committee in the Special Session): "We are seeking of course only legislation to end starvation wages and intolerable...
Last week Squadron members received a second shattering blow. Serene and blonde Viscountess Hinchingbrooke, wife of a onetime secretary of Earl Baldwin, went tripping across the sacred lawn in bright blue linen trousers. Nothing so blasphemous had happened since the day few years before when a shameless hussy appeared without stockings. Horrified, popping eyes were turned upon the Viscountess who blandly sat down, ordered tea. Next day the Squadron Committee met to discuss the crisis, decided to authorize the gatekeeper to turn back in future any woman so dressed. To newshawks Lord Hinchingbrooke expressed himself laconically: "Private club. . . . Private pants...