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...Net Result of the great Decency Debate, achieved without a roll-call vote, was to take literary censorship away from the Customs agents and put it in the hands of the U. S. District Courts. The Customs agent would seize the volume but only a judge and jury could pass upon its obscenity, order its destruction. The book importer would have all the privileges of appeal to the highest court. Senator Cutting declared himself satisfied with this liberalizing compromise, predicted that Customs agents would not be so reckless in seizing books if their opinions had to go before a court...
...punishable than the man (supposing him single) who committed the offense with her because she has betrayed a marital trust. A bribe-taking public official is likewise more punishable, because he has betrayed a public trust, than the bribe-giver, who is under no specific oath of honesty. The net result of last week's trial was to make the $100,000 Doheny gave Fall a legitimate loan, but the $100,000 Fall took from Doheny a corrupt bribe...
...exception to losses reported and awaited came last week in the statement of United Aircraft and Transport Corp. For its first year, U. A. T. showed net earnings of $8,300,000, or about 50% of the total earnings expected for the entire industry. Jubilantly, President Frederick Brant Rentschler told stockholders of this success, and of $5,400,000 new orders since Jan. 1. Money-making U. A. T. subsidiaries include Pratt & Whitney (motors) ; Chance Vought, Sikorsky, Boeing (ships...
Aviation Corporation of the Americas, parent of Pan American Airways, showed a net loss...
...returns of the Prohibition Poll indicate that the net result of the attempt of the older generation to solve its liquor problem has been a new problem which younger hands must someday unravel. Legislation of the Volstead Act and Jones Law calibre is no way out of the alcohol tangle. 24,000 college men and women in eighteen different colleges have examined. Prohibition and found it wanting...