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Although men and women serve as draft animals in China and Africa, the use of men for mules in Arkansas made news. Superintendent Stedman hastened to defend his farm from charges of cruelty...
...Chairman of Arkansas' Penal Board went to the farm, talked to the men-mules, tried pulling one of the cotton planters. He decided that Superintendent Stedman was right, it was no harder than usual farm work. But Arkansas' Governor Futrell felt differently. If draft work was not a cruel and unusual punishment, it was, he decided, at least too conspicuous. He ordered it stopped...
...counsel to the pre-War Pujo money trust investigation, had spoken of the bill's original draft as "impossible, impracticable." Testifying before the Senate Committee last week, the aging attorney criticized many provisions as deflationary and indiscriminate, found numerous glaring omissions. Roundly he denounced a fixed formula for margin requirements, urged instead discretionary power in the hands of the central credit body, the Federal Reserve Board. The Senators and their counsel, Ferdinand Pecora, were impressed...
...political hay. Prime Minister Bennett wrote an informal letter to the Bank of Montreal last spring promising a Government guarantee for the C. P. R. loan. On the basis of this letter the bank loan was negotiated. Not until six months later did the Prime Minister find time to draft the necessary Order-in-Council. In this delay the Opposition thought it smelled a rat. Furthermore, the The committee room was jammed and overflowing when Prime Minister Bennett took the witness stand last week. In its nearby chamber the Commons could scarcely scrape a quorum. Quickly the Prime Minister assured...
...posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter. Five years ago Tunney married Polly Lauder, Carnegie Steel...