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...writer of the article probably knows that I was only charged with the expenditure of about $197,000 for primary contest, the amount and details of which were filed with the Senate before I was elected. I was never charged with bribery or personal wrong-doing of any kind. The U. S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the political persecution I endured and the Senate, by a majority of several votes, declared me fully entitled to my seat...
...There was not a single witness," declared Mr. Baruch, "who did not propose price-fixing through some means. The excess profits tax standing alone as a means of equalizing the burdens of war is fatally defective because it aggravates inflation. The fixation of a few individual prices is a wrong war policy because it would be confiscatory, because it has only a fragmentary effect on inflation and because it is more difficult than general stabilization...
When the U. S. went to war in 1917, critical citizens declined to take at face value President Wilson's pronouncements of an idealistic national purpose. Right or wrong, they insisted that the country had been driven into the fight for selfish economic reasons. Bankers who had made large military loans to the Allies were charged with seeking to protect their investment. Industrialists whose factories already hummed filling foreign munitions contracts were accused of fostering U. S. participation to increase their own profits. After the Armistice this skepticism of U. S. war motives was increased by the presence...
...Chicago, one Walter Lang was arrested because he stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...
...Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with them; he wanted merely to live, and in a fuller way which he had neglected. Till his wounds were healed he lived with a friendly...