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...prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead...
...admitted that radical activity in the United States does offer a threat to domestic tranquillity which requires careful attention, it does not follow that any price, no matter how high, should be paid to remove this danger. Political freedom is no empty trinket to exchange for peace of mind over the Bolshevik bogey. The tactics of the New York City police in recent handling of the communist problem indicate no inclination to stop short of thorough supression and persecution. When New York industrialists apply to the police for information to enable them to throw communist employees out of work...
Against this tense background the Senate and the President enacted another unseemly wrangle. The issue between them was the threat, real or imaginary, of increased expenditures Congress might or might not authorize. Universal is the practice among Congressmen and Senators to introduce, chiefly to impress their constituents, measures authorizing huge expenditures which they know will never be passed, will never cost the U. S. a cent. As political gestures, some 10,400 bills have been so far offered in the House of which only a bare hundred or two will ever become...
...really cannot take the letter seriously," declared Mr. Forbes, "since it contained nothing that could be actually construed as a threat of violence. I suppose it came from some person of unsound mind who read about the purchase of the painting by the Museum and resented that so much money should be spent on anyone or anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work...
...authorized the Pittsburgh & West Virginia to build a six-mile extension into the Donora, Pa., steel district. The extension was granted over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, once the great and good friend of the tiny P. & W. Va., changed by the threat of territorial competition into its determined enemy...