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city explain why this magnificent thoroughfare is as barren as a desert of trees, shrubbery, flowers or grass? With these embellishments Wilshire Boulevard would be without a rival among the capitals of the world. Is it the lack of water for irrigation purposes from which Los Angeles suffers that prevents greenery? In my admiration of this wonderful Boulevard I have often wondered why this absence of parking...
Because grim, humorless Senator William Henry ("Mac") McMaster, insurgent Republican up for reelection, loves the Hoover Administration no more than does lean-faced, witty Governor William John Bulow, his Democratic senatorial opponent, South Dakota this year is a political battlefield practically barren of national issues. However Nominee Bulow's blunt comedy-Will Rogers once called him "funnier than I am"-has saved their campaign from stagnation. Last week he declared: "They ain't any great issues out here, I guess. Mac's got a job and I want it." Nominee Bulow is famed for his tobacco chewing...
Adams, Adler, Archibald, Armstrong Atkinson, Balzerm, H. Barren Batch Bates Beech Brooks, H. F. Brown, P. H. Brown, Burmard, Channcey Chever Claff, W. Clark, Cenant...
...were as glad to see Mr. Meyer go in as they were to see Mr. Young go out. Mr. Young as Board Governor, had been largely blamed for the Board's failure to check last year's stockmarket crash. His warnings had been ineffectual, his restrictive policies barren of results. Mr. Meyer, on the other hand, is a forceful aggressive character who has known Wall Street from his youth. (He was perhaps the first man to make a thorough statistical analysis of U. S. Steel's investment possibilities...
...Jersey, Electric Power & Light Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc., United Corp., United States Steel Corp., General Electric Co. In discussing present conditions, the Babson report said the drought had been one reason clients have been kept out of stocks since November. Apparently misconstruing the meaning, Barren's (Dow-Jones weekly) decried this prophet who foresaw drought months ahead, wondered why he did not have the power to prevent it as well. While Roger Ward Babson's recent fame gave his report wide publicity, dispatches from London quoted a more bullish viewpoint on the part...