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Rumbled California's Hiram Johnson: "The power of the Senate is very great. No wonder that certain persons want to see its power curtailed. . . . They wish it because they have some ulterior motive in preventing the exercise of the treaty-making power in the manner required by the Constitution." Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark said a friend told him it was common talk in the State Department that there was no intention of submitting a peace treaty to Congress at the end of the war but that arrangements would be concluded by executive agreements. Asserted Ohio...
Montana's Burton Wheeler sniffed an Army dictatorship; California's Hiram Johnson was disturbed about the "warlike proclivities" of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; North Dakota's Gerald P. Nye shouted that Japan, after five years of war, had not yet taken young men out of schools for its Army...
...liquor companies lose nothing by this deal. Main reason: when they started commercial alcohol production last December they got OPA to boost prices from 24½ ? to 50½ ? a gallon. Results have been fine. Six months' profits of the four biggest distillers-Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Hiram Walker, National Distillers, Schenley Distillers-jumped 40% to a smacking $14,814,000 after taxes. At the same time combined earnings of 290 bigtime U.S. industrials dropped 35%. Moreover, the liquor industry may get "vacations" from war work to rebuild depleted stocks. Otherwise it might be out of business after...
...following men were named to associate professorships: Dr. Fuller Albright, now assistant professor of Medicine; Dr. Allan M. Butler, now assistant professor of Pediatrics; and Dr. Hiram H. Merritt, now assistant professor of Neurology...
...already finished the first draft of his war message. In the second-floor red-room study, he talked to the Cabinet, then brought in the Congressional leaders -among them, on his first visit to the White House in many a moon, aging, croak-voiced Senator Hiram Johnson of California, oldest of the Isolationists. The President was deadly serious. There was no smile. The lines in his face were deeper...