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Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...three days the embarrassed firms, including the Pepper King's own house of James & Shakespeare, Ltd., strove to put their accounts in order for settlement day and the inevitable tumble in pepper prices that would follow. Garabed Bishirgian, who had often deliberately lost at high-stake poker in order to help the friends he had whipsawed in the market place, was calm. Pepper trading was suspended for another day and then another and another...
...refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were collared, seemed destined for Nazi concentration camps. Finally no check on Nazi terrorism was possible last week because the League's Saar Governing Commission dared...
...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
...perhaps as well that the man who strove so hard to set the nations free now lies dead. Democracy has fied the chancelleries of Europe, and the cloud of war is rising over the horizon. The very things which President Wilson in his sincerity attempted to abolish have sprung from the Treaty he killed himself to make...