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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flayed by the Lobby Committee in its fourth report, last week, was James A. Arnold, lobbyist for the Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...
...vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which overcame a Mrs. Nellie Stringer of Brooklyn who suffers from sleeping sickness...
...House Mr. Barnes and William Butterworth, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, were flayed for "misuse of power." Exclaimed Representative Garber of Oklahoma: "What does this episodical news reel disclose? Little men rattling around in big places. . . . A bunch of swaggering bullies making a noise without sufficient information...
...farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture compiled final estimates of crop values for the year. Significant figures...
...wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...