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...Republican Party cannot afford - to permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other...
...With reference to your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...
...President sealed up a neat little bale of newspaper clippings telling of deaths from poisoned alcohol and letters of protest which he had received, despatched them to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston without comment...
Last week, though it was too early to hazard the statement that Abyssinia positively will not obtain justice or redress through the League, the Italian Foreign Office issued a significant statement: "The incidents culminating in a protest by Abyssinia to the League may be considered closed. The Government of France has indicated that it will not support the claims of Abyssinia before the League...
...road's property valuation. What that valuation should be based upon is in dispute. The Government insists on the 1913 value of the roads, the roads upon their present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...