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...sketched his works. David Lewis also: got labor unions exempted from the anti-trust laws; wrote the guts of the Guffey-Snyder coal act; handled telephones & telegraphs during the War- (and would have been President Wilson's Postmaster General but for political exigencies); has fought Inflation and the Bonus. Churchmouse poor, erudite and intellectually passionate, he dares to do what other Congressmen would tremble at: shut himself up in his office and refuse to see constituents...
...After being Speaker in the Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...
...young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they had lapped all the field but one. Then Ortman's motor sputtered, slowed him up, and Turner won with an average of 283 m. p. h. Happy over the prospect of $18,000 first money and a bonus of $4,000 for breaking the course record (264 m.p.h.), Turner attributed his good luck to the godspeed of two old ladies whose prayer book he had auto graphed before the race...
...lived completely withdrawn from the social and community life of St. Louis, in which he was a pervasive power. He belonged to no clubs, had no friends in public life. Childless, he lives with his wife on a salary that one year reached $75,000 plus bonus, on a 96-acre farm in St. Louis County...
...cajoling dealers and salesmen ("My name is Lyon but I'm no wild animal. . . ."), and President Chalkley spurred the whole company to fresh endeavor by encouraging initiative rather than following able Mac McKitterick's policy of being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice as McKitterick's successor. And as the cool, careful, level-headed type he was well fitted to guide Philip Morris from a small unit with...