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...misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond and pay costs if they lost. This amounted to an indication on behalf of the President that business was to get reasonable consideration, not merely to be the butt of the New Deal. ¶ "Deeply shocked and distressed" was President Roosevelt when he heard that his onetime Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin had died in Manhattan- whispering in his coma as he lay dying "Yes, Governor . . . no, Governor ... I don't think so, Governor...
...tried to help him. He himself kept order among the overeager photographers. "You'll get all the pictures you want," he said, "so don't get in front of each other and get in each other's way." And again to a man who tried to butt in: "Get away, I'll run this. This is my show and this is my mug. I've got a proprietary interest in it." Before leaving the cutter Samuel Insull gave newshawks a prepared statement: "I have erred, but my greatest error was in underestimating the effect...
...mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...
...morning coats and silk hats without looking like politicians in a St. Patrick's Day parade. It will be noticed that when they are photographed with the President they never look at the camera, always at the crowd, with their hands folded across their chests, one gripping the butt of a revolver inside the coat over the heart. Col. Starling's job (he is a Kentucky Governor's colonel ) is the delicate and critical one of being advance man on Presidential trips. He not only examines any room which the President is to enter, but the rooms...
Last week, under like circumstances, Rockefeller Center became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin...