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Lawyer Hogan, the dapper "million-dollar fee" man who defended Oilmen Doheny and Fall against the U. S. in the gay 1920's. got off a lively attack on the abuse of citizens' rights by Federal enforcement officers. Excerpt...
Potatoes & Protest. What caused Maine's voters to elect dapper, wisecracking, rabbit-lipped Louis Jefferson Brann as its fourth Democratic Governor since the Civil War and send two Wet Democrats out of three to Congress? A variety of causes evidently combined. In low lobster and potato prices Maine is resentfully aware of hard times. Hoover relief is slow reaching its rocky shores, its little towns, its forests and farms. Secretary Mills, stumping the State, urged voters to stand by the President and his party, thereby injecting the Hoover-Roosevelt issue into the campaign. A majority...
There is a nightmare that every Latin-American President has over & over again. In it the dapper officers who have been saluting so punctiliously come to the President's bedroom in the middle of the night with a resignation for him to sign. Chilean officers last week called on dapper little President Carlos Guillermo Davila. former Ambassador to the U. S., and it was no dream. While airplanes droned over the Presidential palace for nearly 24 hours, General Bartolome Blanche, the Army's Commander in Chief, and Col. Arturo Merino Benitez, Chief of the Air Force, argued...
Livest Lobby, The significance of a Legion declaration for the Bonus lies in the fact that it will unleash upon Congress the most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat...
...West. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese believe that rich, undeveloped Manchuria is their only hope of salvation. When Count Uchida was born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later Earl of Beaconsfield, who preached exactly the same sort of utilitarian imperialism, made his Queen Empress of India, bought the Suez Canal to develop Britain's oriental trade and to protect her Manchoukuo: Egypt. Disraeli was just as convinced as any Japanese today that his country must...