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...heyday of Hamiltonian federalism these protests from Lexington would have added to its considerable glory throughout the Small America of that time. Every pioneer and farmer would rise to the support of the Yankee patriots, every banker and broker would tremble with rage. But the sincere patriotism of those latter-day Minute Men of 1934 hits the Middle Western farmer, receiving regular handouts from the government, as a particularly sharp annoyance from some small-town Old-Dealers of the East. And the bankers, knowing from experience, what the Minute Men know from feeling, join chorus with Lexington...
...fortnight were the New York Rangers who won the Stanley Cup last year. The Toronto Maple Leafs, by far the ablest team in the National League judged by their season's record, were put out fortnight ago in a semi-final against the Detroit Red Wings, owned by Broker James Norris of Lake Forest, Ill. Opponents of the Red Wings in last week's three-out-of-five series for the Cup were the Chicago Black Hawks, owned by Mr. Norris' neighbor, Major Frederic McLaughlin...
Married. Geraldine Swift, 22, daughter of President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co., packers; and Albert Thomas ("Tommy") Taylor, 26, Chicago broker, onetime Yale footballer; in Joliet, Ill. whither they eloped from Chicago...
...Philadelphia two months ago a great outcry followed Leopold Stokowski's announcement that at the next Youths' Concert he would play Soviet Russia's ''Internationale." The American Legion publicly protested. Broker Francis Ralston Welsh, rabid antiCommunist, called Stokowski a Red. William Curtis Bok, the Orchestra Association's vice president, tried to smooth things over by saying that he thought Stokowski would change his mind, that "it was probably just one of those things that pop into his head...
...serving his fourth term as president, Broker Hudson is head of Hudson Sons Co., a direct successor to his father's concern which once had a firm grasp on the whole U. S. salt business. Broker Hudson went west from Ohio by easy stages, helped found the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, moved to San Francisco at the century's turn. He claims that never in his 78 years of life did he advise a customer to buy or sell a share of stock, holding to the West Coast tradition that every man has an inalienable right...