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...Hamilton, Bermuda, William Leach suddenly left his armchair to get a book. Just then a bolt of lightning came down the chimney, destroyed the chair...
...incalculable political debt for delivering 90 convention votes when they meant the difference between triumph and disaster. And Mr. McAdoo did not turn the course of history for nothing. He expected and got the vice-presidential nomination for his and Hearst's man Garner. He stopped the bolt-to-Baker. He crushed Alfred Emanuel Smith, thus avenging Madison Square Garden. Above all, by all the rules of the game, he got first call on any job at Governor Roosevelt's disposal. By rights the Treasury should be his again for the asking. The Ambassadorship to Britain is another possibility. Specific...
...building, laundry, newsstands), racketeers often bring about stabilized conditions for a stiff price. In larger unit industries, the leadership comes from within. Though encouraged by the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission, trade associations are ever eyed suspiciously by the Attorney General's office. The potent Bolt, Nut & Rivet Manufacturers Association was dissolved. Famed suits are pending against the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute, the Sugar Institute (TIME, Feb. 22). Charges brought are generally "combination and conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price...
Lest the Irish Free State delegation bolt, the message omitted His Majesty's customary allusion to his "loyal subjects" and the Conference in a subsequent resolution thanking His Majesty omitted the customary words "allegiance" and "loyalty." With a broad Irish grin, Free State Vice President Sean O 'Kelly called the resolution "the least provocative (from an Irishman's point of view) that has ever been sent by an Imperial Conference to the King...