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Baron Ponsonby, rising to defend the MacDonald Government, demanded of the Bishop of Durham, 67, and of Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...
...attempt of Representative Crail to have Edgar Lee Masters' "Lincoln the Man" barred from the mails may be interpreted in two ways. Either it is a sincere but misguided attempt to safeguard public morality and defend the memory of a great man, or it is a "grandstand play" for public opinion. The fact that Representative Crail has not read the book in question makes the latter view seem rather more probable...
...Marine base at Quantico, Va., he soon made a speech to the local townspeople, saying that he would not permit his men to trade with Quantico merchants until every Quantico bootlegger was put out of business. He addressed his men as follows: "You birds took an oath ... to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
Loud was the clamor in London last week over Prime Minister MacDonald's announcement that Great Britain would not defend the Schneider Trophy this year (TIME, Jan. 26). From the Conservative and Liberal benches were fired barrages of questions, demands to know why such a decision was made at this time, after Italy & France had been drawn into the contest on Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living...
...Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel demanded that he be subpoenaed to defend himself against "baseless statements designed to reflect upon me." The bank's officers went to court to get Lawyer Steuer disqualified as their inquisitor...