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Brigadier Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: 509 to 157 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

All eight members of the Federal Farm Board settled back securely in their swivel chairs last week as the Senate, after seven hours public haggling, confirmed their nominations. The Comptroller's office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Confirmed & Confronted | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

The Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Crime in Purchase? | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

The decency debate was precipitated by Senator Bronson Cutting, Harvard-educated New Mexico Republican. He maintained that Customs officials are not qualified to pass upon literary imports. A recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Obscenity Bypath | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

The Treasury Department declared it would carry the case of Broker Norris to the Supreme Court of the U. S. to determine finally whether liquor-selling guilt does end at the customer's front door.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Incidental Transportation | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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