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...MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. While the clerk's voice droned on, Senator Black scribbled rapidly, drafting a resolution ordering Sergeant Jurney to arrest and forthwith bring Mr. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate. With no delay the resolution was passed and Mr. Jurney with a red carnation in the buttonhole of his morning coat hastened out to do his duty. Two hours later he was back to report that he could not find...
...sorry," said Mr. Jurney, explaining that he could not make the arrest because he had left the warrant in his office safe at the Capitol. Besides the warrant called for delivering Mr. MacCracken "forthwith" before the bar of the Senate and that was now impossible since the Senate was not in session. Mr. Mac-Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand...
...executive pen in the Presidential hand decreed: 1) That the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps should be extended one year beginning April 1; 2) that all discriminating duties and imposts on Soviet vessels and their cargoes should be forthwith ended; 3) that veterans pension regulations should be eased...
...Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne, retiring with a bang to set up an analysis bureau of his own and to serve as adviser to Kings Brewery at $15,000 a year, had examined samples of spirits being sold in his jurisdiction, found many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label), imitations be labeled imitations (with ingredients stated).* Medicinal whiskey, said Dr. Wynne, must be the stimulant which the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the Food & Drugs Act of 1906 specify...
...secret was it that Dr. Sprague was considering resigning. The moment came when Pupil Morgenthau, as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, decided there was room for only one school of thought, announced rigorous censorship of Treasury news, forbade government officials direct contact with the Press. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague forthwith called newsmen together, issued his resignation. Said he, in a letter to the President...