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...fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...
...stampeded into adopting the A. A. U.'s "boycott" plan. Against fiery old "Gus" Kirby stood equally fiery Brigadier-General Charles H. Sherrill, American member of the International Olympic Committee and onetime Ambassador to Turkey. Barked General Sherrill: "In its present form [this resolution] is a threat to Germany. I move it be amended so as to be a protest...
...ridden out of the Constitution on the principle of returning liquor to the states. Yet here was a Democratic Administration doing its utmost to retain complete control in Washington. Observers saw unmistakable signs of Brain Trusting, with distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were more pleased than they had been all year...
...induce a resurgence of investing and hence a great rise in purchasing power. It is this fact which has led to an increasing demand, both inside and outside the banking community, for revision of the act, in order to overcome what is now quite probably the main threat to recovery...