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Then, fortnight ago, the American Legion reversed its stand and came plumping out for the bill (TIME, Feb. 2). Forthwith Mr. Patman got some more signatures. Also a storm of counter and compromise proposals burst in both House and Senate. Three proposals stood out: 1) to pay the present value; 2) to pay the present value plus 25%; 3) to increase the present loan or collateral value up to 50% of the face value...
...Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...
...expires. Last July the old Power Commission (consisting of three Cabinet members) asked Attorney General Mitchell if it would be legal to issue to Appalachian Power Co. a special, permanent "minor part'' license omitting the Federal audit,* for its plant at New River, Va. The Attorney General forthwith declared the special license valid for plants not on navigable streams. To support his interpretation of the Water Power Act, he declared that if the law were read so as to permit no escape from Federal valuation of hydroelectric property, it would be impossible "to avoid serious questions regarding...
...York's repository for wayward females, Bedford Reformatory. He learned that Lena's mother had taken her to court one day 18 months ago, on her 16th birthday. Lena's mother had told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime and might have been there still but for the discoveries about other Bedford commitments-"frame-ups" by venal members of the police vice squad-which have lately added fresh disgrace to New York City...
...investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. 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...