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...invoked the law in order to save his property from foreclosure. In Tennessee 600 manufacturers of hard wood have got a decision from a Federal Judge that, in selling 40,000,000 feet of lumber to Fisher Body Corp. at some 15% below code prices, they did no legal wrong. In Oklahoma a Federal judge dismissed indictments against two automobile dealers charged with buying used cars and selling new cars at below-code prices. Grounds: that the sale of an automobile from a man living in Oklahoma City to another man living in Norman, Okla. is not interstate commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Old Men in Black | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Multiply the piety of an Irish policeman by ten, imagine him to be escorting the Supreme Pontiff cubed, and you have the state of mind of Police Sergeant Juei Honda when things went horribly, incredibly wrong last week in Kiryu, Japan's silk centre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God's Detour | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...whiteslave traffic and insisted that at the very least the manufacture of munitions should be taken out of private hands and made a prerogative of government, Sir John Simon neatly beclouded the issue with a sneer, "Does the Right Honorable Member mean that privately-owned brothels are wrong but state-owned brothels right?" Finally and flatly Sir John said that the National Government of ex-Pacifist and ex-Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald will not permit a "roving inquiry" of the U. S. Senate type in Great Britain. "If we could have an inquiry which really studied the question of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...made them all miserable. Joan Crawford only corralled two, but then one was Harvard '06 and the other Yale '26. Perhaps it evens up. The general purport of the two features at the University is that this is no longer a man's world. They were done wrong--and they liked...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/16/1934 | See Source »

...many citizens of our own country show this same deadly suspicion of the ultra-liberal professorial class, called into the Brain Trust and other high posts to save us lest we perish. The result, so far, seems to be that each is so right the other can be but wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To The Defense of Magoun | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

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