THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says By WILLIAM T,. EVJUE WHAT becomes now of the claim for Nordic racial supremacy which formed such an important part of the Nazi ideology when Hitler was hypnotizing Germany's...
...It may be safer to bet on Dewey to place,—he may come up with the vice presidential nomination...
...Listen to this story of stalling and procrastination...
...Taft is evidently following the precedent set by Mrs...
...Taft came up for renomination in 1912 he managed to win out over Teddy Roosevelt by the use of southern delegates...
...There was an astonishing repetition of "I can't remember" and "I don't know" to questions involving the disposition of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Liberty bank loans...
...Taft is starting out on a speaking tour that will take her inlo six states...
...Here is a behind-the-scenes sidelight in this Liberty bank case which illustrates how the depositors get what is left after wire pullers get through with the remains...
...The action of the banking commission throughout the whole history of this Liberty bank case has been one of indifference, and what has been done was only done as a gesture for the purposes of a record...
...the newspapers aren't slick,— they have simply gotten wise to Communist fakery in the deceitful use of peace to serve Communist purposes...
...It was contended by attorneys for the banking commission that officials of the First Wisconsin National bank had full knowledge of the purposes for which the money was used...
...The average person in Wisconsin who has tried to borrow $500 or $1,000 from a bank during the last 10 years will attest to the fact that the banker has always asked for full information on the purpose of the loan...
...Now witness the picture: the Norwegians and the Danes are supposed to be 100 per cent Nordics within the meaning of Hitler's demands...
...There is a little coterie of politicians who devote themselves solely to the selection of delegates to the national conventions, who devote no time and energy whatsoever to elections, and whose whole object is the securing of federal patronage...
...6 against the United States going to war...
...The decision held that there was no evidence to sustain the conclusion that the officials of the First Wisconsin National were aware that the money was to be used for window dressing purposes and, as usual, the small banker, I. J. Rosenberg, president of the Liberty Stale, now is left as the goat in the whole affair...
...Since the advent of Mrs...
...The court commissioner, in his nightshirt, signed the order and the matter came up in circuit court at 9 o'clock that morning...
...The Wisconsin banking commission was a party to the suit and an appeal was taken to the Wisconsin supreme court...
...And we are willing to put this $2 dow-n at the betting windows at a time when enthusiastic Dewey supporters are throwing their hats in the air over the returns from Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Illinois...
...There will not be more than 200 delegates In the Republican national convention who will be chosen in bonafide 1 primaries...
...Immediately, John G. Pallange started an action at his own expense to void the settlement...
...Newspapers are now being flooded with the propaganda of this organization...
...Her interest and support for the millions of underprivileged in the United Stales made her popular with the masses...
...But at 2 o'clock that same night after someone had tipped off the realtor concerning the action of the committee, the realtor and his lawyer rushed to the home of the court commissioner, roused him out of bed and pleaded that he sign an order bringing the proposed $1,000 settlement before the court that morning...
...While Dewey and Van-denberg have been cutting each ! others throats in Wisconsin and Nebraska, Sen...
...Today, Mrs...
...For instance...
...Do you suppose that there is the same delay when the First Wisconsin National starts suits against borrowers who have failed to pay their loans to the First Wisconsin National...
...Roosevelt, highly placed politicians have discovered that a political leader's wife may be an asset instead of a liability...
...gave any publicity to the nationwide movement of labor which declares 'the Yanks are not coming...
...The First Wisconsin National is pretty big game for members of a banking commission to stalk...
...The attempt of the attorneys for the First Wisconsin National bank and inferrentially the members of the Wisconsin supreme court to paint Rosenberg as a slicker who outsmarted the unsuspecting officials of the big First Wisconsin National hardly goes down...
...It was four years after Pallange filed his complaint before the case went to trial in November, 1937...
...Only the realtor, his lawyer and the receiver of the closed Liberty bank were in court...
...Meanwhile Taft will come to the Philadelphia convention with 213 Republican delegates from the Solid South where not one state Is holding a presidential primary...
...Here is another example of the manner In which corporate wealth In this stale seeks to frustrate justice through stalling find procrastination when an Individual citizen (|;eks to get justice for himself...
...After a hearing, the cir»uit judge approved the $1,000 settlement on an indebtedness of $108,000 and the realtor promptly and enthusiastically paid the sum...
...They were quite sure that Mrs...
...N. C. in 1906, Sen...
...Roosevelt would stand in Hie forefront in any Gallup poll testing popular strength...
...a Liberty bank depositor, and the banking commission started a suit to recover approximately $580,000 from the First Wisconsin National on the claim that $580,000 of Liberty State collateral had been liquidated by the First Wisconsin National in payment of loans which the banking commission neld to be illegal...
...The newspapers are wise to the fact that "the nationwide movement of labor" which centered around the slogan "The Yanks Are Not Coming" was not a movement inspired by labor but by the Communists...
...Roosevelt...
...When Hitler was making his bid for power years ago, he set himself up as the leader of the great crusade against Jewish bolshevism and Nazis sought to rationalize their aggressions by maintaining that they were necessary to save Europe from Jewish bolshcvism...
...Roosevelt would be meat for them and would eventually cause embarrassment to the president...
...The case went to trial and the same circuit judge who, a short time previously had approved the $1,000 settlement, now set it aside on his own motion...
...The trial lasted for 73 days,—one of the longest court trials in the history of Milwaukee courts...
...Not a single capitalist newspaper in the country, as far as we can see...
...However when Pres...
...John Pallange saved $34,000 for the bank and wasn't paid a nickel...
...It is reported that a Milwaukee law firm has collected $20,000 in connection with the winding up of the affairs of the Liberty State bank...
...It will be remembered that Hitler demagogically pictured the Nordics as a superior race and thundered that it was the duty of those with Nordic blood in their veins to rescue the world from Jewish domination...
...Rosenberg could go to the First Wisconsin National bank and borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars without the First Wisconsin National having full knowledge of the purposes to which the money was to be devoted...
...She proceeded in her dignified, unassuming way to win the respect and admiration of millions of people in this country...
...Taft of Ohio has been lying low, playing the part of the fox, while Dewey and Vanden-berg have been setting up a wall of bitterness between themselves...
...Where was the banking commission.— what was it doing to protect the interests of the depositors...
...speculators...
...Two months later the realtor increased his offer to $34,000 in settlement of the $108,000...
...The Wisconsin supreme court recently held unanimously in favor of the First Wisconsin National...
...Of course, there is always some ianger in being associated with the southern delegates because if has been mown for years that .southern dele-jates are bought and paid for before they ever arrive at a Republican convention...
...The New York Daily Worker, official organ of the Communists, says: "Capitalist journalism is slick...
...As?in we ask the question, why it is that in cases where corporate wealth is concerned that litigation can always be stalled for years* During the tortuous history of this case, one Milwaukee circuit judge kept one of the bank's demurrers under advisement for more than four months and then disposed of the matter in a 20 line decision...
...In the presidential sweepstakes this year we are willing to put down another $2 on the proposition that Thomas E. Dewey of New York will not win the presidential nomination at the Republican national convention...
...The press is just as afraid of a peace scare as the Wall st...
...It will be recalled that John G. Pallange...
...And many of these so-called Republican primaries are such in name only...
...The peoples' desire for peace is not news...
...The Taft publicity also announces that Mrs...
...Less than one half of the delegates to the Republican national convention will be selected by popular vote in the primaries...
...This total is a greater number of delegates than Dewey can win if he carries every primary election in the 13 states that ho:d presidential primaries...
...Apparently not...
...Roosevelt has been a startling phenomenon in American politics...
...In a speech at Greensboro...
...Day by day the original program announced in Mem Kampf is Inhering away and Hitler is being revealed for what he is,—a consummate, mad demagogue who has become a despot...
...Roosevelt has been to them...
...The 13 slates where Republican presidential primaries are being held this year account for only 448 of the 1,000 delegates to the convention...
...A group of economists favoring such a proposal is being lined up under the title of "American Economists Council for the Study of Branch Banking...
...But what a disappointment Mrs...
...Publicity received from the Taft-For-President headquarters, Cleveland, Ohio, makes the claim that Taft already has the support of 300 delegates in the next Republican national convention...
...Roosevelt began to give indication that she intended to take a personal part it} public life, reactionary editors and cartoonists over the country began to lick their chops...
...It was not until two weeks later that the creditors committee heard of this transaction and were inexpressibly astounded...
...The newspapers, further, see through the hypocrisy of Communists to try to use peace in this county to serve their purposes while condoning the onslaught on peace being made by brutal dictators in little countries like Finland and Scandinavia...
...The Communist paper is whining because the newspapers are exposing the pretense and the sham in the attempt of Communist strategists to be slick...
...Powerful banking interests in the Uniled States are laying the groundwork for an attempt that Is to be made to liberalize the national banking act to permit national banks, wherever located, to conduct a statewide branch banking business...
...The situation in New York is paralleled In other primary states, and in other btates the primary results are not mandatory on the delegates...
...But today, the Nordics in Norway and Denmark find themselves under the iron heel of this great champion of Nordic supremacy while at the same time Hitler has an alliance with the hated bolsheviks whom he so bitterly scourged a few years ago...
...Does it seem reasonable that a small banker like Mr...
...Exactly 261 of the 279 southern delegates voted for Taft and almost a third of them were federal office holders...
...It was charged that I. J. Rosenberg, president of the Liberty State bank, on five different occasions, borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars from the First Wisconsin National for the purposes of window dressing—that the money was used to bolster the published statements periodically required of banks by the state banking commission...
...Taft's father publicly deplored the influence of southern delegates to a Republican national convention...
...Taft is said to be a much more able and convincing speaker than her husband...
...When Roosevelt was elected and Mrs...
...But don't forget that Taft will appear at the next Republican national convention with more delegates from the south than will be represented by all the delegates elected at primaries...
...The creditors committee, representing the bank depositors, in a meeting that ended one midnight, rejected the offer unanimously...
...In 1933, John G. Pallange, a depositor in the Liberty State bank, started an action on behalf of himself and 6,000 other stockholders in an effort to recover for the benefit of the stockholders approximately $580,000 of Liberty State securities thai had been liquidated by the First Wisconsin National to pay the loans negotiated by Rosenberg...
...The realtor had the monumental nerve to offer $1,000 In full settlement of these notes...
...THE record in the suit instituted by the Wisconsin banking commission in behalf of the depositors of the closed Liberty State bank of Milwaukee against the big First Wisconsin National bank should not be permitted to recede into dusty official archives without some closing observations on the implications of this case...
...In other words a lonely depositor saved $34,000 for the depositors of the Liberty State bank...
...Seven years elapsed between the time that Pallange started the suit and the decision of the Wis- consin supreme court...
...Hitler painted the Jews as the authors of bolshcvism and maintained that Russia was the fatherland of Jewish bolshevism...
...Does it stand to reason that the big First Wisconsin National would retain in its employ for one week an official who couldn't remember the details of a transaction involving hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...84 of the 92 New York delegates were supposed to be elected by popular vote, but most of them were chosen without contest and without having expressed any presidential preference...
...AFTER WINNING $13.20 on a two dollar ticket on Lucky Dutch at a Florida dogtrack recently, this writer feels a bit chesty in his ability to pick a winner...
...The recent decision of the Wisconsin .-.upreme court ends a piece of tortuous litigation that was started seven years ago...
...There are already intimations that some scandals may arise out of the garnering of delegates for Taft in the south...
...He said: "As long as the Republican party in the southern states shall represent little save a factional chase for federal offices in which business men of substance in the community have no desire to* enter, we may expect the present political conditions in the South to continue...
...EVJUE WHAT becomes now of the claim for Nordic racial supremacy which formed such an important part of the Nazi ideology when Hitler was hypnotizing Germany's millions while rising to power...
...When the Liberty State bank closed, the bank held $108,-000 in notes of a Milwaukee real estate firm...
...Before the Dewey enthusiasts rush to the betting windows to bet on Dewey on the nose, they should give consideration to some important factors that will be decisive at the Philadelphia convention...
...When the trial closed Judge Klezcka, the presiding judge, took the case under advisement and rendered his decision ten and one half months later...
...Was it a big story, for example, that hundreds of thousands of American trade unionists had been preparing for weeks to demonstrate on Apr...
...The average laymen need only read the testimony given in the discovery statute examination held several years ago to convince himself that officials of the First Wisconsin National bank were not frank and forthright in giving testimony on what transpired...
...There are aspects of this case which do not appear in the decisions of courts or the rulings of judges which should have the attention of the public...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
