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...most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate...
Omaha citizens were amazed. The City Prosecutor doubted whether the State law permitted U. S. agents to "go about stopping reputable citizens because they have a package under their arm." Hearing that the charge might be dismissed without trial, William McD. Rowan, U. S. Prohibition Administrator in Omaha rushed to his agents defense. Said he: "Just because a millionaire is arrested there is an awful stink. . . . We treat the rich and poor alike...
...Tariff Bill, passed by the House and now pondered through the hot summer days by the Senate Finance Committee, became more than a domestic matter when 43 protests against its high rates were filed with the U. S. State Department by the diplomatic representatives of 25 countries. Collectively, politely, the protests told the U. S. that increased tariff schedules might prove injurious to that expansion of U. S. foreign trade so anxiously desired by President Hoover...
International. The collection of complaints had been piling up at the State Department for several weeks. When Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison first asked how many had been received, he received the answer: "About a dozen." He pressed for more definite information. First an erroneous figure of 38 protesting nations was given out. Then Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee was jockeyed into the necessity of revealing the true list. Some were complaints made by foreign governments as governments; others, merely the transmission of private commercial protests through governmental channels...
Great Britain, Irish Free State, Turkey, Norway, Greece were other complainants. Notably absent from the list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result...