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...first corps of U. S. newshawks she had seen in 31 years. Author Stein, hearty, hefty, dressed in a coarse, mannish suit and thick woolen stockings, was sailing up New York Harbor to begin a lecture tour. Over her close-cropped grey hair was pulled a tweed deer-stalker's cap. To the disappointment of newshawks, she gave an intelligible interview: "I do talk as I write but you can hear better than you can see. You are accustomed to see with your eyes differently to the way you hear with your ears, and perhaps that is what makes...
...matters in hand seemed to grow most vivid through the personality of Dr. Hocking, the ruddy-faced, stubbly-mustached 59-year-old Harvard philosopher who chairmanned the Commission. No great orator, he spoke intensely, earnestly. A cool-minded stalker of religion in his books (best-known: The Meaning of God in Human Experience), Dr. Hocking wrote the first four chapters of Re-Thinking Missions, the groundwork of the whole discussion. Last week he got his laugh when he was asked to answer somebody's question: "If it be accepted that a culture, as distinguished from a mood or a tendency...
...STALKER'S CRUCIFIXION by Tenor Richard Crooks, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Organist Mark Andrews and Manhattan's Trinity Choir (Victor, $9)-For those who want their Easter music more orthodox than Wagner conceived it; recommended more for the excellence of its recording than for its musical substance...
...although "Five & Ten" was rapidly replacing "Jones Law" as the measure's name, Senator Jones tried to escape his misery by calling in company. He pointed out that the measure had had a co-author in the House of Representatives, Congressman Gale H. Stalker of New York, who was being deprived of his share of the credit. In fact the Stalker Bill, he said, had been introduced nine days before the Jones Bill. Insisted Mr. Jones: "I hope the proper term will be used in referring to this . . . legislation and it will be known as the Jones-Stalker...
...March 2, 1929 President Coolidge signed the Jones-Stalker Bill which authorized the imposition of a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine or five years imprisonment or both for violations of the National Prohibition Law. The purpose according to Senator Jones, was to combat large scale "bootlegging" operations. By a special provision "the courts are to discriminate between casual or slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender...