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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government," the plan actually remains indefinite concerning the authority to be invested in the business group and the extent to which their advice would necessarily be followed. Mr. Strawn himself described the scheme as "embryonic." John W. O'Leary, suggested as head of the new regime, said that "the whole thing" was in a "formative state." and James Simpson, Marshall Field president, scolded Mr. Strawn for making a "premature" announcement. Yet, loose and shapeless as the plan at present appears, the business government movement, perhaps immediately inspired by the desirability of "cleaning" Chicago before the World's Fair...
...appropriation for the Prohibition Department. Last week, however, Dry Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, succeeded in getting the Senate Appropriations Committee to report a $25,000,000 increase in Prohibition funds. The Senator originally proposed $50,000,000, but the Committee halved the sum. The Senate as a whole has taken no action as yet on the proposal, which is a part of a current deficiency bill. Recently (TIME, Dec. 24) Wet Senator Bruce of Maryland suggested a $270,000,000 Prohibition appropriation, chiefly to focus popular attention on the amount necessary to enforce Prohibition properly. Prohibition Commissioner James...
...presently he showed more smartness than most in fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
Priests as Clappers. Perhaps the only humorous page of Laborite Ponsonby's whole appalling report is that on which he shows how the European press gradually and spontaneously built up an atrocity story out of absolutely nothing, after the fall of Antwerp in November, 1914. Without comment he presents the following press cuttings...
Drawn and shuffled and dealt out anew, last week, were a whole pack of Ambassadors, Ministers, Special Agents, a World Jurist and a Governor General...