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...regard this inquiry as extremely important in that it offers a basis for legislation which would provide specific regulation of campaign expenditures-a law is needed, both in the public interest and in justice to the candidates themselves. . . . Senatorial committees [must use] their own judgment and discretion in determining how much a candidate may spend. . . . In my campaign I had to make an appeal to approximately 3,000,000 voters.* . . . Simply the mailing of one letter each to all the voters of Illinois would cost...
...actual reports, which Mr. Barnes "submitted to the business world for interpretation by individual judgment," varied in completeness and meaning. Thus a gain in the amount of money held by building and loan societies, and the only April gain recorded for six years by New York State savings banks could be bearishly interpreted as the result of a contraction in trade. Similarly, a record volume of business in new life insurance perhaps only reflected loss of confidence in security markets...
...Supreme Court is to retain its function as the moulder of the Constitution in eventual accordance with the popular mandate, it is essential to appoint to it men of high quality and broad outlook. For example, the men who may one day sit in judgment on the Volstead Act ought to have in view impending disruption and obvious corruption as well as intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly...
...while some have looked on the Philadelphian Society with horror, some with amusement, some with complete apathy, almost every Princetonian has regarded it as weak. This judgment was echoed last week by the society itself. President Charles Stevens announced that next year it will lead only a nominal life, while a federation of studentry and faculty carries on its charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton...
...from events last week, it was evident that not all followers of the Grigsby-Grunow fortunes have lost faith in the judgment that successfully brought them from automobile sun-visors to radio horns, from radio horns to battery eliminators, from battery eliminators to complete receiving sets. On April 4 Majestic Household Utilities was incorporated to manufacture the Grigsby-Grunow refrigerators and, later, vacuum cleaners, washing machines. The parent company received 125,000 shares; 374,950 will be sold by subscription at $25 a share. Last week Majestic Household opened on the Chicago Exchange at $44, began jumping in the same...