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...Republicans in Congress "errand boys of Big Business," declared that lobbyists pulled the strings and the people got stung. He boasted: "I vetoed more bills than any President except Grover Cleveland-if I hadn't been there to protect you, you would be in a very great fix by this time...
Obviously, it required exact and uniform standards of measurement. Lack of standard measurements messed up the trade between the American colonies; though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which...
...legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted by the rise of yellow journalism. Brandeis...
...Price. Not so, said FTC as it heard the chorus of businessmen calling on Congress to do something. The ban on basing points, said Corwin D. Edwards, director of FTC's Bureau of Industrial Economics, was simply a ban on using basing points to fix an industry-wide price. Said Edwards: "Nothing in these orders prevents individual sellers, who act without collusion, from absorbing freight . . . In the future, as in the past, there will be a wide variety of geographic pricing methods in use by different companies and different industries. No particular method of pricing will be prescribed...
...purpose of a law court is to admit evidence and fix the guilt of the past. The ostensible purpose of an international conference is to reach constructive agreement upon future settlements. Recognizing this functional distinction, the U. N. charter-makers at San Francisco separated the International Court of Justice from the Security Council and the General Assembly. The most discouraging and barren aspect of the current Paris U. N. meetings is that the delegates of East and West have sat as a grand jury rather than as diplomatic plenipotentiaries...