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...Seaham hurried Eldest Daughter Ishbel MacDonald, no candidate herself, to organize her father's campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...
...serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain is windless weather because it makes yachting "not very enjoyable...
...Cleveland, city of his adoption, had come to look upon him as its most aggressive financier and some midwestern steel interests fancied him their champion against the East. Last December when he broke the proposed merger between Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. by one of the bitterest and most expensive lawsuits in history, the whole nation looked on and Cyrus Eaton stood at the height of his fame. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory, which left the conqueror too weak to continue the fight. Reverses came thick and fast. In April, Continental Shares, Inc. announced the retirement...
...hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne was frustrated in business and love), Wayne...
...Bitterest of all was the Argentine speaker, Dr. Emanuel Malbran, Ambassador to the U. S. He pointed to the importance of Argentina's trade, which in 1929 took 40% of U. S. exports to South America. With chilly sarcasm, he spoke of the possibility that his country will raise a tariff wall: "In case it is adopted it should produce positive results, you would lose a good market. . . . but in exchange you would gain our gratitude for having taught us to make use of high tariffs. . . . It is perfectly logical that in my country they are thinking of following...