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...francs to corrupt poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only one means by which photostatic copies of his books could have been obtained-burglary, as bold as ever was committed. He filed formal complaint "against persons unknown" before a Judge d'Instruction, who expressed indignation, issued an order bidding the Paris police to "find and apprehend these miscreants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Miscreants | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination and election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette v. Kohler | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

TIME '. . . read with interest . . . liquor store . . . Cordials and Beverages, 201 East 44th St." On March 22 wrote U. S. District Attorney Tuttle: "... Complaint . . . referred . . . Federal Prohibition Administrator . . . investigation . . . report . . . this office . . . whether . . .violation . . . exists." On March 27 wrote U. S. Attorney Tuttle, " . . . advise . . . evidence . . . showing sale . . . premises 201 East 44th Street. . . . March 12, 1936 . . . collected now . . . possession . . . this office. . . . Case . . . tried . . . regular order. Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...loudly warned against these holding companies, insisted their undercover activities were already blurring the I. C. C.'s merger map (TIME. Dec. 16). Last week Interstate Commerce Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman appeared as a witness before the House Committee to give specifications for starting the inquiry. His general complaint was that the I. C. C. could handle railroads but that it lacked any legal authority to deal with their financial alter egos which acquire rail stocks, scramble them together in defiance of the I. C. C. and, for all practical purposes, produce consolidations which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I. C. C. v. Holding Companies | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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