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Norris Held
High Court
Observer Believes Ne
braskan Would Prove
Valuable. j
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S al
leged determination to control
the judicial branch of the Gov
ernment and make its deci
sions conform to the administration's
■wishes has hitherto been regarded by
his supporters as a partisan charge
or an unjustified ..
inference.
Now, however, I;
the President has 5
embarrassed his :
own defenders |
somewhat by a 3
frank acknowl- |
edgment that one §
of his chief pur- |
poses of his bill ;
to add new jus- ;!
tices is to assure ■
favorable deci
sions on other |
parts of the ad- S
ministration pro
gram not yet
David Lawrence.
passed upon by the courts.
The President was asked by the
newspaper correspondents if the rec
ord of the Supreme Court in the
term just ending was such as to
justify the withdrawal of the re
organization bill. This query was
prompted by the fact that the New
Deal has won a series of decisions.
There was something severe in the
^question itself, for it implied that
which is not conceded, namely, that
the Supreme Court has been coerced
since the “packing” plan was an
nounced on February 5 last.
Most of us who believe in the in
tegrity of the Supreme Court and its
freedom from political bias believe
that the decisions of the Court since
February 5 were fully justified by
precedents established before Febru
ary 5. Apparently Mr. Roosevelt be
lieves the same thing, and to his
credit it should be recorded that he
does not feel the decisions rendered
In the present term constitute any
real assurance that the court will up
hold other laws enacted by the New
Deal.
Keeps Bill Before Congress.
In other words, the President un
compromisingly keeps his bill before
Congress so as to influence future de
cisions of the court by the simple
process of providing, or threatening
to provide, the court with members
who hold views on public questions
similar to his own.
Mr. Roosevelt has been urged to
compromise. He may do so. But it
will be on minor points and not on
the basic principle.
Thus it is now apparent that the
matter of age of the justices was
really a minor point after all. The
objection was not to the age of the
justices but to the opinions given by
some who happened to be of advanced
age.
The President, therefore, can with
grace waive his point on age and stick
to the main principle, which is that
he be permitted to appoint some new
judges who believe as he does about
constitutional interpretation. Mr.
Roosevelt in effect would be waiving
the age requirement should he decide
to appoint Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas, who is past 60. Robinson’s
appointment would be popular in the
Senate, though somewhat unpopular
with the so-called young liberals who
think he is a bit too conservative.
Might Appoint Norris.
There’s a way Mr. Roosevelt can
Satisfy both camps in his own party.
He can appoint Senator Robinson to
one vacancy and then as another va
cancy occurs—a resignation is expect
ed this week—he can appoint Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska. The
merit of these two selections apart
from any other is that the Senate
would confirm them both without a
prolonged contest or debate.
It is true that Senator Norris hap
pens to be 76 years old, but as stated
before, Mr. Roosevelt might be willing
to compromise on the age require
ment so long as he gets the right
judges. Mr. Norris is the father of
the T. V. A. legislation, and this is one
of the most important laws on which
a number of future decisions are
bound to be forthcoming. In faqt,
Mr. Roosevelt himself mentioned cer
tain aspects of the T. V. A. as being
vital to the success of that part of his
future program which must run the
gantlet of the courts.
Mr. Norris was originally on the
bench. He is held in highest esteem
by his colleagues in Congress. This
correspondent has often differed with
Senator Norris, but believes him, nev
ertheless, a faithful public servant and
one who would make a conscientious
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Comment of Roosevelt.
Mr. Roosevelt during the last cam
paign said of Mr. Norris that he would
like to see the Nebraskan stay in the
Senate for life. There is no such
thing as life tenure in the Senate, but
there is on the bench. Mr. Roose
velt's wish would be gratified if he
were to put Mr. Norris on the Su
preme Court. The Nebraska Sena
tor's talents would then be transferred
from the legislative branch, where he
has had a long record of devotion to
duty, to a place on the judicial branch,
where it can be assumed he would be
equally devoted to the cause of liber
alism.
Senator Norris is active and vigor
ous, notwithstanding his 76 years of
age, and since age is really not the
important point any more in the
President's plan to reorganize the
court, and since the emphasis is on
whether a judge has the Rooseveltian
approach to the Constitution, the ap
pointment of the Nebraska Senator is
as logical as any other appointment
the President could possibly make.
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Interesting Revelations Having Bearing on National
Affairs in Washington.
BY H. R. BAUKHAGE.
TROUBLE in the tall timber.
A firecracker tossed right into the midst of the President's
pet project, the C. C. C., while he was chasing the tarpon, is Just
about to explode. Unless it has a delayed fuse, its reverberations
will be heard shortly.
No fewer than 5,600 reserve Army officers, now stationed in the
C. C. C. camps, have been given their walking papers, but they just
won’t quit.
The Army started it, but the reserve officers have taken the offen
sive. Of course, any overt act would be insubordination, so it isn't official,
But the advance guard has al
ready reached the White House,
and the brass hats in the War
Department will have to meet the
shock troops before they are
through.
* * * *
The thing will probably break in
Congress when the C. C. C. bill is
reported out of conference com
mittee and goes to the House for
another vote.
It all began with one of those “subject—to memoranda that come out
of the Adjutant General's office like sausages out of a machine. It was
dated May 14, the very day the President got back from his fishing trip
and "Daddy” Fechner, director of the C. C, C., was taking off for Alaska.
The order was a terrific wallop for the reserve officers, for its object
is to push most of them right out from under the murmuring pines
and the hemlocks into the cold, cold world—Jobless. For, said the A G.’s
office, on recommendation of the training section of the general staff, in
fine: No reserve officer may serve more than two years; 75 per cent must
be turned over every 18 months. This means that most of the men on
duty, some of whom have served four years, must go.
But they won't. If that be treason, the officers are willing to risk it.
Morale has been smashed to smithereens. Wires are humming in the
hinterland. Wire-pullers in Washington are leaping to their posts.
“Them's orders," says the Army. And the fight is on.
* * * *
The present trouble boils down to this:
The Army's business is to prepare for war. Eighteen months in a
C. C. C. camp for a reserve officer is fine as far as it goes, if it doesn't
go too far.
Too long at chaperoning young Paul Bunyans, while it teaches a
share-tail how to handle men and run a mess, may make his nose
too tender for gunpowder.
The C. C. C. looks at it differently. Its business is handling 300.000
men. Feeding, clothing and housing them. And that requires experience
which the Army's turnover plan would interfere with.
Our stalwart soldier boys aren't the only ones who have a crow to
pick with the Government, the lady Thespians are on the rampage, too.
The W. P. A.'s Federal theater project is getting a lot of female boos.
For when the girls step up to get a part, the answer is “No more need
apply."
And why? The W. P. A. authors don't provide parts for them. The
five Broadway productions which the project has been running had no
major roles for women. One of them, while supporting a cast of 72 male
characters, had no woman's part at all
* * * *
The week-end maneuvers in the battle to repeal the rubber-stamp
act have revealed a new type of offensive. It might be called welfare
warfare, anc*. it is very offensive to the old-line political battlers.
Observers stationed at strategic points during the siege of the
House bloc house saw evidence of backfire from some of the Harry
Hopkins artillery, but there have been no casualties so far.
It seems that some reliefers and their friends would like to have their
relief protided in less scientific doses. They don't like the disinfected
doles.
But Mr. Hopkins knows best. He was practically raised a social
worker, he has specialized in it and his middle name is "Organization."
There's the friction, if not the combustion.
Mr. Farley has an organization, too. So have the various members
of Congress. They do a lot of "social" work, but they don't carry ther
mometers or slide-rules. Mr. Hopkins' organizers do. Some of the cus
tomers don't like this modern fol-de-rol. They would rather take the
cash and let the metabolism go. What, they" ask, are cold, scientific
facts among friends? They have, lately, written in to this effect, and
perhaps that gave the Congress revolters a little false courage.
cecctjeiJ,
rne rucxus cian t keep the
President from holidaying at
Hyde Park. Mr. Hopkins was out
of town. True, he got on the
microphone with agility, but that’s
part of the technique. Meanwhile,
somebody spent his Memorial day
week end telling the bloc-heads,
as some exasperated New Dealers
privately call the leaders of this
movement, that they are going to
get practically what thev deserve
even n tney don t put their earmark on it, and what is more, they are
going to like it.
* * * *
Mr. Roosevelt didn’t call Mr. Hopkins on the telephone on Saturday
back in September, 1933, and ask him to report in Washington the next
Monday—which he did—because he liked his Iowa accent. He had
worked with Mr. Hopkins before when New York State was in need of
a little relief of its own.
Ever since, Mr. Hopkins has been permitted to unscramble his
ou n problems over the scrambled eggs at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue
pretty much according to his own recipe. And it doesn’t make his
host angry when he gets hard-boiled with some of the rest of the
official family.
A leading sociological journal once said that Mr. Hopkins was "the
man who turned a local committee into the New York Tuberculosis and
Health Association" (and that's no mean organization).
Now that our hero has gone national, who knows what he might do
with a national committee?
Caveat Politicus.
(Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
ROOSEVELT FARM
CROPS TO BE GOOD
Spring Planting Is Successful at
Pine Mountain
Estate.
B: the Associated Press.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga„ May 31.—
Farmer Franklin Delano Roosevelt
may look forward to a “good harvest”
after a successful Spring planting at
Pine Mountain.
Otis Moore, tall, red-faced superin
tendent of the President's 2.250-acre
estate, made the forecast here, basing
it upon years of contact with Georgia’s
soil and weather.
“We have fine prospects for prac
tically everything,” he said.
“The oats and corn are good and,
from the looks of the vineyard, there'll
be plenty of grapes this Fall.”
The weather, Moore said, has been
conducive to good crops—with neither
too much nor too little rain.
While the President’s farm sprawls
over 3’/2 square miles of Pine Moun
tain, only about 150 acres are in
cultivation.
Pastures and forests cover the rest,
to the delight of work stock and the
Hereford herds, which are the pride of
Supt. Moore. Most of the crops are
foodstuffs for the cattle.
Cotton, the Southern staple, is not
grown. The fruit of the half dozen
peach trees is for home use only.
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VETERAN INSURANCE
DEADLINE NEARING
Temporary Policies Must Be Con
verted Into Permanent Form
by Tomorrow.
B5 the Associated Press.
World War veterans holding tempo
rary Government .war-risk insurance
have until tomorrow to convert their
policies into other forms of insurance.
Officials of the Veterans’ Adminis
tration explained today that policy
holders may convert into permanent
government insurance (straight life)
by submitting to physical examination
and paying an increased premium.
The premium for permanent insur
ance, they said, is higher than that
or the temporary or five-year term in
surance.
President Roosevelt Friday vetoed a
bill which would have extended for five
years the time in which veterans might
convert their term policies. Holders of
such policies had been given three
previous periods of grace for conver
sion, and Mr. Roosevelt said it was
time they made permanent provisions
for the future.
Chairman Rankin of the House Vet
erans’ Committee asked that the veto
message be tabled until tomorrow, in
dicating he would ask Congress to
override the veto.
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star's.
Social Security Reform
Reconsideration of Phases of Act Before Plunging
Into Wage-Hour Legislation Advised
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
THE fact that the Supreme Court
has declared the social security
legislation of the last Congress
to be constitutional does not
mean that the legislation is good. It
is not. It is extremely bad, and it
needs serious reconsideration and
amendment. I know of no competent
students of so
cial insurance, of
no outstanding
expert, who be
lieve that the
present legisla
tion is adequate.
The Twentieth
Century Fund
has spent 15
months in hav
ing a thorough
analysis made of
the existing laws
and will shortly,
I understand, re
lease a compre
hensive report.
Dorothy Thompson.
in ine meanwiiiie me uasic criucisms
of this organization have been made
known through numerous statements.
One of our outstanding experts on
social insurance, the executive secre
tary of the American Association for
Social Security, Mr. Abraham Ep
stein, has just presented an admir
able monograph criticizing the pres
ent system and proposing amend
ments, which is published by the
League for Industrial Democracy.
The two reports, that of the Twen
tieth Century Fund and of Mr. Ep
stein, are in complete agreement at
many points. Thus, Congress has at
its disposal, if it cares to use it, a
large amount of expert opinion.
Furthermore, there is no need for
pioneering in this field and for re
peating mistakes which have been
made in the past. Although social
Insurance on a national scale is a
new thing in this country, it is not
a new thing elsewhere. Germany
has had social insurance since Bis
marck introduced it in the 1880s;
the principle of contributory pay
ments for unemployment insurance
which Bismarck introduced in an
era of young capitalism, when un
employment was largely transitional
and temporary, was afterward kept
by the German Republic and broke
down completely in 1932, whereas the
British system, which was based only
partially on contributions from wage
earners and employers and largely
supported by direct taxation, has
worked, on the whole, admirably, after
a great many adjustments. But there
is nothing in our act to indicate that
its framers were familiar with the
German and British experience. At
any rate, they took over the worst
features of the German laws and
Ignored the successful British experi
ence.
‘'Destructive" Criticism.
Nor has all of the criticism of the
present legislation been constructive.
One hears often the statement that
old-age and unemployment insurance
‘‘ought to be put on a sound actuarial
basis." Although from an actuarial
standpoint the present legislation can
certainly be criticized—higher paid
young workers, for instance, entering
the system when the 6 per cent rate
goes into effect, will actually pay
much higher premiums than would be
charged by a pritate insurance com
pany for the same annuities—it is a
great social mistake, I think, to re
gard insurances primarily from an ac
tuarial standpoint.
You cannot make social security
laws on the actuarial principles of pri
vate insurance. The purpose of such
laws is what needs to be borne in
mind, and the purpose is not to enforce
thrift upon the poor, whose incomes
are inadequate, anyhow, to the main
tenance of a decent living standard
for the family. The purpose of social
insurances is to stabilize the economic
order, maintain purchasing power in
times of depression and so halt the
downward slump, prevent the accumu
lation of vast masses of chanty cases,
to be taken care of by made work pro
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grams, and to distribute to the needy
a larger share of the profits of indus
try than they are capable of getting
for themselves.
There are numerous objections to
the present program, but the basic one
is that this plan for social and eco
nomic stabilization ought to be borne
by the Nation as a whole, and instead
it is put upon the shoulders of the
workers and employers and ultimately
upon the consumers. The employed
worker and productive industry must
pay the cost. If it is true that there
is a considerable technological unem
ployment in the country, then these
laws cannot help but accelerate it, be
cause they put a premium on employ
ing men and give every advantage to
the machine. The British law aims
to guarantee a modest basic income
to all workers in distress, but the ben
efits in our act depend entirely on
the wages previously earned by an in
sured person and are largest for those
least likely to need them. The huge
numbers of existing unemployed are
totally Ignored, and cannot begin to
become beneficiaries until they are
re-employed in the industrial system.
Security System Offers
Actually the security which the
old-age system offers is precarious in
deed. "An insured worker"—to quote
Mr Epstein—"must average at least
$100 a month uninterruptedly for
twenty years to get a pension of $32.50
a month when he is 65 years old.
With sickness, strikes and unemploy
ment • * • most workers would not
get such annuities unless they worked
for 25 or 30 years.” And although
the act does not provide security for
many years to come, it places an im
mediate back-breaking burden upon
the workers, especially the younger
and better paid ones, precisely at the
time when they ought to be founding
homes for which they need their
earnings.
There is more than one danger
inherent in the huge reserves con
templated under the old-age insurance
plan, which is estimated to reach
47 billions in 1980! Possibly Congress
may dissipate the funds for other
purposes, since they are not ear
marked. but that might conceivably
be the lesser of several evils. The
sum is 12 billion dollars above our
present indebtedne.ss, and it may
be invested only in Government
bonds. The effect on the national
economy when all governmental
bonds are withdrawn from the banks,
insurance companies, trust funds and
private investors can be imagined.
There is a serious chance that all
governmental debt and securities will
be in one account controlled by -the
Government itself.
Administration Feature.
The administration of the unem
ployment insurances, as the act stands,
is incredibly cumbersome, compli
cated and expensive. •'Instead of pro
moting adequacy of standards and
uniformity, the act encourages a con
fusing variety of systems,” says Mr.
Epstein. ''Indeed, the act has already
brought about a miscellany cf 48 di
vergent State plans.” Actually, the
tax-credit plan for unemployment in
surance was opposed from the start
by every single student of the prob,
lem.
So much really constructive think
ing and criticism, with such unan
imity of conclusion, has been done
on the social security act by pub
lic-minded citizens and experts that
there is really no excuse for not re
forming it. Certainly it might be
well to reform this act before rush
ing headlong into highly debatable
wages and hours legislation. And
above all, the social security act
might be reconsidered and reformed
before another billion and a half is
voted for W. P. A. Because really
intelligent and generous unemploy
ment insurance laws would make
much of the W. P. A. activity un
necessary.
(Copyright, 1037.i
This Changing World
"Man on the Street” in Europe Differs With Diplo
mats on Theory War Is Not Near.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
THE Spanish Loyalist government would like the world to consider
the present war as a foreign invasion and treat it as such. Gen.
Franco is satisfied with the present status of a civil war. If his
aviators manage to make a few direct hits on embassies, consulates
and foreign warships, there is every probability that the Loyalists will have
their desire fulfilled.
* * *
There is conflict of opinion between the professional diplomats and the
ordinary man in the street regarding the situation in Europe. Foreign
I
diplomats in the United States and
American diplomats stationed in
Europe profess to believe that there
is no imminent danger of war. So
say leading citizens who are im
portant enough to be interviewed by
ship reporters as liners from Europe
arrive in New York.
But ordinary Americans, those
who are not important enough to
make a headline, think differently.
Business men and professional men
who have spent months in the old country associating with people of their
own class come back with the gloomy tale that everywhere there is a
feeling of hopelessness. That from England to Turkey, despite the official
optimism of the government's spokesmen, ordinary people are convinced
that they are going to be sent to a wholesale slaughter in the near future.
And they all seem reconciled to that idea. Heads of business organizations
are making the necessary preparations for the ctay when they will have
to leave their business to older men or to their womenfolk. Peasants are
hurrying to gather their crops and are keeping a surplus in their barns “for
the family after we leave.” Leave of absence is granted to officers and
privates only when there is an actual case of serious illness.
Whether the men uho see Europe in a hurry from a comfortable
arm chair or have talks with optimistic diplomats are right, or those
hundreds of individuals who spend months on the continent talking
to the “men in the street,” remains to be seen.
* * * *
The British war department is somewhat astonished at the refusal of
the Australian military detachment sent for the coronation festivities to
mount guard at Buckingham Palace. The “Aussies'' were offered that
honor which would have put them on the same level—for a day—with the
food guards, but they preferred to have a good time in London rather than
pace the pavement in front of the royal palace for 24 hours.
M. Bedaux, the owner of the Castle de Cande, where the Duke of
Windsor and Mrs. Warfield will be married, is a self-made man in the
real meaning of the word.
The son of a day laborer on the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean railroad,
he himself started life as a member of a railroad team. He educated him
self and became an engineer. France did not offer him the opportunity
of advancement he desired so he came over to the United States, where he
made a fortune and married an American girl. In 1916 he organized a
corps of American volunteers to fight in the World War. After the war
his business expanded and he has now interests in almost every section of
the world.
The Chateau lie Cande. which he purchased in 1927 from the
Spanish-British nobleman, Drake del Castillo, seri'es only as a place
of rest between trips to India. Australia and South America.
* * >k *
Friends of the former King of England describe him as an already
disappointed man. Not that his love for Wallis Warfield has abated. He
continues to tmnic that she is the
finest woman in the world. But he
does not know what to do with
his many idle hours. The Duke of
Windsor was brought up to be the
ruler of 500,000.000 people. From
his childhood on he was busy. In
his youth he had to go through a
thorough naval and military train
ing. Later he was Great Britain's
salesman. He had to make an ef
fort to find time for play and that
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To
pc
JIldUP pia> auracuve. inow he has nothing to do except play. Despite
of the reports published frequently that his country will eventually en
trust him with some sort of a job, there is no possibility of his ever playing
any role in the empire for th» rest of his days He'sees before him an
empty life of travel and play. And for a man who has been used to assum
ing tremendous responsibilities that is not enough.
POTATO PRICE DROP
SUSPENDS DIGGING
‘■Holiday’’ Spreads in Alabama
Fields—Convict Crop Dump
ing Is Charged.
Bs the Associated Press.
ATMORE, Ala., May 31.—A "dig
ging holiday" spread over a large
acreage of South Alabama's potato
growing area, and a charge was
voiced—and quickly challenged—that
I "dumping" of convict-grown potatoes
! had contributed to a drop in prices.
■ There was a virtual shutdown of
| digging in the Atmore section of Es
cambia County, where hundreds of
farmers annually harvest thousands of
acres of potatoes.
A charge came from a Loxley. Ala.,
• produce firm that "dumping" of pota
toes from the Atmore State prison
1 farm was to blame, with other major
| contributing factors, for the sharp
drop in prices.
C. B. Rogers, president of the State
Board of Administration, vigorously
denied any prison “dumping.” “Our
shipments to date,” said Rogers,
“amount to less than 1 per cent of
the State's total production. The
'dumping' charge is popycock.”
Faced with prices of 70 cents a
hundred pounds for No. 1 grade and
20 cents for No. 2's. the growers ap
pealed to the Federal Government
for aid, and the Surplus Commodity
Corp. plans to start buying spuds the
first of the week for relief purposes.
-.
Man Defies All Germs.
Suti Chi of Canton, China, applied
at the Central Field Health Station
in Nanking to demonstrate by tests
that he is immune to smallpox, in
fluenza. cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery
and bubonic plague. He is ready to
eat a mouthful of any of the germs
or a mixture of all. He draws the
line, however, at their injection into
his blood stream. That would be
I risky, he concedes.
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Magill Report on Tax
Envasion Spurs Drive
for Tighter Law.
THE more fervid New Dealers
took it pretty hard when Prof.
Roswell Foster Magill became
special assistant to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, to explore tax
dodging and point out the dodgers. He
was arc n as a
conservative, and
he is a son of the
d 1 s t i n g uished
Hugh Stewart
Magill of Chi
cago, who, as
president of the
American Feder
ation of Invest
ors, is bracketed
more with the
haves than the
ha''e-rots. The
treat -'em - rough
crowd here want
Prof. Maiill.
eel larold Groves
of the University
of Wisconsin for the tax job. Eco
nomic royalists are Mr. Groves' fa
vorite clay targets.
Secretary Morgenthau insisted on
bringing in Prof. Magill, as an author
ity on Federal taxation, and as p man
who ought to be able to uncover hide
outs and get-aways in the income
tax maze. The Magill report on tax
evasion spurs a drive for a general
overhauling and tightening of the in
come tax law. President Roosevelt,
in his last press conference, made it
clear that the swing on big-income
tax dodgers was entirely premeditated
and that a congressional investiga
tion would follow. This writer gath
ered, at the conference, that action
would be immediate and overt, possibly
starting with the President's return
from Hyde Park.
Ammunition Acquired.
Hold-outs on the Magill appoint
ment are cheering the Columbia pro
fessor today. There Is no Indication
that he pulled his punch in his fact
finding inquiry and the President
seemed to think he had enough am
munition to sink one or all of those
$100,000 yachts, allegedly used for tax
write-offs.
Prof. Magill might be one of those
“six men with a passion for anonym
ity" for which the President yearned
when he was telling about the Brown
low report. Naturally, a tax expert
isn't garlanded or spotlighted like the
top-bracket politicians here, and that
is all right with Prof. Magill, who
has been busier than a gopher bur
rowing through the Treasury tax un
derground the last few months. H»
is surprisingly human for or.e of
his profession, with nothing desiccated
or actuarial about him, and has made
a pleasant field day out of his tax
evasion study.
Prof. Magill is 42 years old. a native
of Auburn. 111. He was graduated
from Dartmouth and from the Uni
versity of Chicago, as a doctor of
jurisprudence. He was a captain in
the World War and began the practice
of law in Chicago in 1920. He was
on the University of Chicago faculty
from 1921 to 1923 and has been with
Columbia since 1924. He was adviser
to the Tax Commission of Puerto
Rico in 1928 and is the author of
several impressive, and to the layman
quite bewildering, books on Federal
taxation.
(Copyright. IB37.)
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SCO i'iSBLUFF, Nebr. i/P .—George
Priggie was perplexed when he saw a
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he had been working.
The crowd was perplexed, too, when
it saw Priggie.
But the men in the ditch were the
most perplexed of all. They were
digging for Priggie's body. Priggie. a
plumber, had walked away to get some
cement just before the ditch caved in.
Since nobody saw him leave, fellow
workers feverishly began to remove
several tons orf dirt in search of his
body.
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