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...whole year Senator Elmer Thomas has been thumping the drum for inflation. He thumped last autumn for dollar devaluation and he got it. He thumped last spring for monetization of silver and he got what, from a distance, looked like it. Having learned how easy it is to get what he wants by thumping his drum in the ears of Treasury officials, he thumped it once again last week. Said...
...prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that...
...francs ($65,900) a year for 30 years, bought a $25,000 estate at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. In 1913 the youngest son of old Jay Gould sailed for France because he said the U. S. Government meddled too much in business. This autumn he will return to the U. S. for the first time in 21 years, live in his new home at Ardsley...
...early autumn of 1913, the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to guide the Federal Reserves bill through Congress and court the youngest of the President's three daughters. Because he, a widower with six children, was twice her age, he laid away his affection for her in the attic of his soul where, he said later, "one stores lovely but hopeless emotions.'' Later he changed his mind, and one chilly December evening sitting on a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument he proposed. When accepted, he felt obliged to offer his resignation from...
When a cinema code was finally adopted last autumn, President Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...