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...Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield a potent verbal cudgel in defense of the two Indians who sat in a stinking Bengal jail...
...large one, one which will surely confront America for the next few decades. As yet we have been unable to decide whether we shall have active government control of business, and in the few cases where we do have it, how much power the board or commission shall wield. The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are unique in being the only government bodies that have grown to a position of real power, and now both are being challenged by big business...
Born in 1757, Gillray soon developed remarkable ability at caricaturing, and before his death in 1815 had come to wield perhaps a more powerful influence than any other Britisher not directly affiliated with a political party. His cartoons touched every possible matter of public interest; and as he lived in a period of fast-occurring and momentous events, to follow his sketches is to learn the history of the times...
...able through Federal detectives and policemen to reach into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...week, to Star Reporter Peter Vischer of Exhibitors Herald & Moving Picture World. Father of many a cooperative, bitter enemy of Henry Ford, Mr. Sapiro's latest venture has been the Independent Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association, of which the purpose is to permit the owners of small cinemansions to wield a more potent influence upon the large and exclusive companies which make cinemas...