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...Taft explained: "In the colder and calmer state of the public mind, the reform is found to be at variance with the habits of many of our people, especially in the large cities, and in the outset the law has become most difficult to enforce...
Senator Couzens, Canadian by birth, a former business associate of Henry Ford, a former Mayor of Detroit on a reform platform, has enough money to be independent of "ward" politics?and has the reputation of exercising that independence. Governor Groesbeck appointed him a few months ago to succeed to the mud-beslung seat of former Senator Newberry. If Senator Couzens hopes to continue in office he must stand for re-election next year...
...Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the International Harvester Company were commended for their enlightened policy toward labor. At Winona Lake, Ind., assembled a Christian Citizenship Conference. There were present over 5,000 delegates from the United States and 30 foreign countries. This conference is sponsored by the National Reform Association, an organization of business and professional men without any particular religious affiliation. Three United States Senators, seven governors, two bishops, and many college presidents took part in the program. The 42 meetings of the conference were presided over by prominent business men from all parts of the country...
...fight for electoral " reform" has taken a curious aspect: In the North the powerful Popular Party (Catholic) and in the South a royalist movement are the rallying points for the opposition to Mussolini's scheme...
Mussolini's dictatorial powers expire on December 31; unless he can, by his " electoral reform" cement his power over his Party before elections, he will either be dragged by his followers into some foolish coup d'état, or will find his Party outvoted in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and his position intolerable...