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Powermen feared the worst and they got it. No less than ten holding company heads sprang instanter to the industry's defense in a joint statement: "We do not believe that it is necessary to destroy these companies in order to prevent a recurrence of abuses, many of which have already been corrected. . . . We stand ready to cooperate...
...only alternative for business men would be to hold onto their stocks and other properties, thus only suffering the taxes on their income. But the first pinch would destroy them utterly...
...from Hanover, showing that the present system was not by any means perfect, but had no inherent defects, maintained that it could be remedied by a thorough public health program of education and legislation, which would not destroy the personal and adventurous element in the medical profession that had brought it to its present high standing...
Father Coughlin concluded his address by reciting as a prayer the 82nd Psalm, with interpolations. Excerpts: "Oh God . . . thy enemies have made a noise. . . . They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people. . . . They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, and let the name of Israel (America) be remembered no more. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant (League of Nations) against thee...
...Sykes, are not, I affirm, those that bespeak for him the requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial poise...