OF PURE INTENT : : :
Paine, Robert F.
OF PURE INTENT : : : By ROBERT F. PAINE NOW, Sinclair, in court, claims that he had a perfect right and good reason to hire Burns detectives to shadow the Teapot Dome jurors. You see, he had...
...and that there are already 55 rear admirals, seven or eight of them so rear that their heels are scratching desk-tops in the navy department...
...Because the people of the -United States are fond of highly spiced and heavily salted food, and cancer is mostly a disease of the digestive organs, John K. Gore, president of a well-known insurance company, thinks we should cut out the spices and much of thj sail...
...The trio of big oilers should be wearing halos, not indictments...
...slash in wine tax, $930,000...
...and, require him to report where the 2,000,-000 husbands are hiding...
...It is a pretty serious matter, when millions of wives are compelled to go out and work, instead of making homes...
...The Havana conference may not be the usual love feast, enjoyed when diplomats t'et together...
...reduction of club dues, $5,000,000...
...THE DOLLAR GOES"RED" SECRETARY Kelloggs department appoves a loan of thirty or forty million dollars, by New York financiers, to Soviet Russia...
...MAG RUDER UNMUZZLED THE administration has simply got to put some more discipline on that Rear Admiral Magruder...
...A lot of oratory and mutual felicitation will be devoted to commercial and political matters, but the ordinary reader's interest will fasten on what is done to the Calvo-Draco doctrine...
...Sinclair's lawyers 2nd money are devoted to justice...
...It is in the same spirit as that in which Doheny and Fall became so patriotic in saving the navy's oil, m their little deal...
...Let him hive it,, right away...
...We are spilling gunpowder and blood to keen Nicaragua's president in his seat...
...THE UGLY DOCTRINE WITHIN a fortnight the Pan-Amcr-- lean conference will assemble at Havana...
...WORKING WIVES T'HE annual report of Labor Secretary Davis hath an exceedingly sour aspect...
...There doesn't seem to be much of 100 per cent Americanism in the American dollar, no to speak...
...Whatever the Havana conference may produce, it should be remembered that, besides the polished promulgated sentiment of the assembled diplomats there is the sentiment of the Latin-American masses...
...If it is because husbands loaf, let's have the facts...
...The masses are taking quite a decided interest in diplomacy nowadays, as several foreign kings can testify...
...Two deductions seem to be legitimate...
...The horny-handed earner of salary or wages doesn't seem to be in it so that you can notice him or her...
...We made a sour mess of the Tacna-Arica matter, disgusting important elements of Peru and Chile...
...The time is not auspicious...
...This doctrine is suggestive of that old proverb about chickens coming home to roost—Latin-American hybrid chickens, in this instance...
...However, there's a $33,000,000 reduction in tax oh automobile sales...
...Red" Russia agrees to spend the bulk of the money on American machinery, with which she will equip a vast steel industry in the Don region, where coal and iron lie close together...
...reduction of stamp tax on transfer of capital stock, $8,800,000...
...So, let us hope for th%-bes...
...in bird's-eye shape, like this: Total reduction, $232,000,000, which goes as fellows: $176,000,000 to corporations...
...Just now \va are investigating President Calles ot Mexico on charges of bribery...
...You see, he had "reasonable grounds" for believing that somebody would monkey with those jurors and produce "an unjust verdict...
...The rear admiral testifies that not one of the seven navy yards on the Atlantic coast could be used as a base in case of war, only one of them having water enough...
...Is Secretary Wilbur going to let rear admirals go on telling such things...
...Panama is yelling for a new canal treaty and Argentinos are bombing American banks...
...It accounts for 14 per cent at all ages and 23 per cent at ages of 40 and over...
...These reductions total $190,-730,000, leaving $42,005,000 of the $232,-735,000 to be applied elsewhere...
...It is...
...Secondly, Vvith American money, cheap labor and raw material in hand, Soviet Russia will compete with American steel and iron products, at lower than American prices...
...that the private shipbuilding yards are shot to pieces...
...First, New York money-makers have confidence in the continuation of Soviet government...
...Forbid the U. S., too, says the Calvo-Draco doctrine...
...A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW WE ARE now able to get a clear view of tax reduction, after the plan of the Republican House...
...He is so showing, the naval weakness, before the House naval committee, that the Mexican, or some other hostile navy, may be tempted to descend upon Washington at any minute...
...You have to admit that this C.-D...
...Our Monroe doctrine would forbid intervention by any European nation in the internal affairs of Central or South American peoples...
...WHY WE QUIT HEART disease is now the leading cause of death in the United States...
...Davis says that there are 2,000,000 married American women doing.day's work outside of their hom£s and that the vast majority of them do so from necessity...
...Perish the thought...
...Cancer has advanced in 20 years from the sixth to the third cause of death...
...Secretary Davis asks authority for making a special study of the matter...
...doctrine sounds natural and reasonable, considering the U. S. habit "of intervening...
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