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...Varney believes he can shoulder Pan American aside if he has the right politicians working for him. If he does, it will be a man-sized job. for Pan American is so deeply intrenched at home and in 32 other countries that not even President Roosevelt cared to tamper with its mail contracts...
...Holiness Pope Pius XI hurled from Vatican City a potent reaffirmation of his 1931 Encyclical against sterilization: "That pernicious practice must be condemned. . . . Men are begotten not for earth and time but for heaven and eternity. . . . Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . [to] tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason...
...months ago that his resignation would be acceptable in the make-over of the Government for the New Deal. Commissioner Humphrey replied that he had no idea of getting out, that no criticism had ever been made of his work, that the President had no right to tamper with independent government agencies. Even if he gets Commissioner Humphrey out, the President must by law appoint a Republican to the vacancy. Philip Fox La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin. Insurgent young brother of Insurgent young Senator "Bob"' La Follette, was supposed to be in line...
...proposition short shrift. Said he: "This issue of fiat money would undermine the credit of the country . . . and shake the soundness of the United States Government itself. It's an invitation to start on the primrose path Germany followed until her mark went down. . . . Look out when you tamper with the soundness of your currency. These Bonus bonds you hear about are just greenbacks. . . . Inflation of a currency once started in a country seldom stops short of its complete economic ruin." When a Congressman asked him to study other Bonus-paying proposals, Mr. Dawes shot back: "Oh, hell...
...work of the committee as a whole deserves praise. The men have thought only of helping the players of projecting him from injury; they have not attempted to "tamper with the game." From the spectators' point of view it will be little changed. By all possible means the committee has tried to lessen the changes of injury. If this is done the real enjoyment of football as a game will be increased and much of a the hysteria will be diminished...