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...Amendment, dusted off his bill to make liquor-buyers as culpable as bootleggers. Senator Harris prepared to renew his demand to double enforcement appropriations, bringing them up to 30 millions per year. Dry Senator Norris of Nebraska entered the general excitement by joining Senator Brookhart of Iowa in a loud demand for Secretary Mellon's resignation...
Because the Treasury does not publish the whys and wherefores of each refund, many a senator has made loud complaint against the secret system of refunds. In the past one of the loudest complainants has been Senator James Couzens of Michigan. This year's list carries a tax refund of $989,883 for him. No explanations were necessary because, as everyone knows, the U. S. had sued Senator Couzens for $10,000,000 as unpaid taxes on his profits from the sale of his Ford Motor Co. stock, had not only lost its case but had been ordered...
This is partly a novel, partly autobiography, partly an essay on modern civilization. Those who like loud talk, quick action, should not apply. Those who like good writing, quiet observations, had better read...
...tale begins in London, at a Thamesside dockyard where a cruiser is being launched. It is May, 1900; the Boer War is on. The first character in the book is Bolt, a loud dockyard foreman, a Kiplingesque sort of character, a type of England in her glory. At the end he is a doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar...
...Loud was the outcry of U. S. newspaper publishers when Canadian papermakers, prodded by provincial government officials, announced they would have to charge $5 more than $55.20 per ton (the present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting Federal investigation. They also made the conciliatory gesture of inviting a committee of the Newsprint Institute of Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further...