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Born 53 years ago in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Walter Howey was ousted from Blee's Military Academy at St. Joseph, Mo. for selling his horse. His family next sent him to Chicago Art Institute. Following a few nonproductive months, Walter pocketed what remained of his tuition money, chartered a small steamer, took the student body on a rollicking cruise of the Great Lakes. Back in Fort Dodge he persuaded his father to get him a job on the local paper. He loved it, swelled with pride when his weekly wage was raised from $5 to $10, finally...
Market analysis have the uncomfortable feeling that, although the Gold Blee counties weathered their internal difficulties of the past week, the situation remains unchanged and that sooner or later the gold standard will be abandoned. At one time the storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will...
...needed new equipment (a 15-lb. receiver for the landing beam) and for airline pilots to get practice. It constitutes the magnum opus of Col. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, whose routine resignation was on file last week, and his first aide, Col. Harry Harmon Blee. He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California...