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...election of Townsendite Main in Michigan threw a bad scare into politicians of both parties. In many a Congressional district, especially in the Pacific Northwest, well-organized Townsend Clubs may hold the balance of power in the next election-a power which they have freely threatened to use against Congressmen who refuse to endorse the Townsend Plan. Representative Clarence McLeod of Michigan added to the panic of his colleagues by predicting that the Townsend vote would upset election results in at least 100 districts next autumn. Representative Chester C. Bolton of Cleveland, richest House member, publicly admitted his apprehension. Senator...
Secretary Ickes then took his turn at the lectern, drew his moral from the text of Lincoln's life. Said he: "It appears to have been Abraham Lincoln who scuttled the American Constitution, set up a dictatorship, threw the Supreme Court into the Potomac River and declared a moratorium on Congress. In fact, General George B. McClellan ran against him for President in 1864 on a 'Save-the-Constitution' platform...
...Cabinet's "thinking machine" does not seem to be working properly, and that in consequence the safety of the United Kingdom has been endangered. Since Mr. Baldwin, as Prime Minister, is also President of the Council of Imperial Defense, it was no bunch of roses which Sir Austen threw when he said: "Very reluctantly I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible in the present circumstances for the Prime Minister to be the effective head of the Imperial Defense Committee...
...Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however, Lawyer Elisha Hanson was assigned to urge the freedom-of-the- press angle. His brief substantially followed Lawyer Deutsch's original. So, to everyone's surprise, did Associate Justice George Sutherland's opinion, which threw the Louisiana tax out not on the basis of discrimination but on the basis of the First Amendment. In a decision which surpassed even the famed Minnesota Gag Law case for liberality, Mr. Justice Sutherland also traced the history of newspaper taxation from Milton, through Queen Anne to the Revolution...
...employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William...