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...Chief leave the congress without learning of the latest, distinctively U.S. contribution to the war on crime. It is an experiment for which Mr. Collier will personally expend $50,000. It is a series of advertisements which are to dominate the traction lines and billboards of New York and perhaps be extended to other cities...
These are specific examples of municipal accomplishments, but their achievement has meant the curtailment of profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...Hall showered sparks in all directions. Traffic was effectually tied up for more than fifteen minutes, until a group of motormen policemen and students succeeded in fastening the hanging wire, and holding it until the repairing wire, and holding it until the repair truck from the track from the traction company arrived...
...Charles L. Craig of New York City whose conviction for contempt of court was upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...