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...Percy Edwards Quin, 59, of McComb City, Miss. A rustic wit, he was famed for voting more or less as he pleased on minor issues, for tearing off his collar and salting his throat while engaged in debate and for smoking a pipe on the House floor, against strict rules. A Congressman for almost 19 years, he had chairmanned the Military Affairs Committee since the Democrats organized the 72nd Congress...
Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...
...borrowings on banks' promissory notes and Government bonds would be 1% more expensive. Borrowings would be for 15 days, but should a bank increase its loans on securities during that period it would be barred from further loans. In addition, Federal Reserve Banks would have to keep a strict watch on the loan policies of members in each district, would have to be given complete reports on what security affiliates were up to. Corporations doing an interstate business would be severely penalized for lending money on securities, hence for making call loans. Their deposits could not be kept in private...
...extent depending on how much they can afford to spend for them. The second reason is that the United States is one of the powers involved in the government of the International settlement in Shanghai. The Japanese are making it a base for operations against the Chinese. To maintain strict neutrality we must prevent their doing this, and that means a good deal more than we are doing now. Therefore so long as we do nothing, we are really helping the Japanese. There is no possibility of remaining strictly neutral...
...Laval fell and was reassembled last week; former Premier Andre Tardieu was pushed into the post he was far from anxious for, that of Minister of War; and M. Laval himself took on the duties of Foreign Minister as well as Premier. Suddenly the Surete-General clamped down a strict press censorship. International cable messages were delayed for hours. Though nothing drastic happened, there were numerous incidents in the week's news that might have been misinterpreted...