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...have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange can do anything they want, and from their decision there is no appeal. No rule or regulation can surpass the finality of the Exchange's famed blanket clause: "A member who shall have been adjudged . . . guilty of conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade, may be suspended or expelled." Its only peer is the 95th Article of War, with its famed phrase "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...
...family laundry was just that. He. his wife, three daughters, a son-in-law and a sister-in-law ran the business, lived upstairs over the plant. Two months ago, NRA compliance officers found Moss Jr., 15, driving his father's laundry truck, in violation of the blanket laundry code which prohibits youths between 14 and 16 from working more than three hours...
...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...
Stepping out into the Square he stopped the first car that was available and borrowed a blanket and an old piece of rope. Enlisting the assistance of the driver, he once more approached the baby bovine. Only this time he planned his attack in advance, like a field marshal leading his troops into battle. Flanked on one side by a brick gatepost and on the other by the automobile driver the patrolman closed in. For a moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed...
...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...