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...platform plank favoring a constitutional amendment to overcome that ban. Clarioned he: "The Supreme Court has honestly even if tragically called our attention to the need of a power in government which now obviously is restricted. That need is the issue of the hour. The Republican convention must not sidestep it. ... The Republican Party must not let the Democrats fire the first shot in the new battle for human freedom...
...last week the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, a wholly private agency sponsored by President Roosevelt to sidestep the international embarrassments of Title II of the Securities Act, had two solid achievements to its credit...
...holders of $2,000,000,000 of defaulted foreign bonds, Congress last spring voted $75,000 to establish a Government protective committee. Secretary of State Hull, who did not relish the U. S. Government in the official role of an iron-fisted dunner, persuaded President Roosevelt to sidestep this provision of the Securities Act by sponsoring a potent, but purely private, protective agency (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council completed its organization, prepared to swing into action...
...Rankin Co., MacManus, Inc.). With $250,000 capital he formed Goodwin Corp. His scheme is to build up a consumer market hy getting church people to sell products on commission. The church-going salesladies get 2% "remuneration"' which they "may" turn over to their church-a technicality to sidestep restraint-of-trade statistics. Wrappers or sales slips establish proof of sale. The manufacturer whose product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales on newspaper advertising in the locality covered. The manufacturer also agrees to pay Goodwin Corp...
...Secretary Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to sidestep Title II. And last week it was announced that an "American Bondholders Protective Committee," with the blessing of the State Department, had held its first meeting. After discussing ways & means of collecting on $2,000,000,000 of defaulted foreign issues held by U. S. citizens, the committee adjourned to the White House for a Presidential blessing. In a long press release, the point was carefully made that although "the Government will seek to give such friendly aid as may be proper under the circumstances," the committee was purely a private affair...