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...Adopted a resolution authorizing each member to employ an extra clerk for the remainder of the present session-the clerk's pay to come out of the Senate's contingent fund...
...when an automobile horn sings out "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it ought to mean something. Before the War only Kaiser Wilhelm's family cars were permitted to carry the polyphonic sirens that were known in the U. S. as Gabriel Horns.† When the Kaiser went, any little clerk with an automobile could speak with the four woodland notes of a Gabriel Horn. Last week the Nazis grabbed the Gabriel Horn for themselves. It was decreed that hereafter when an automobile toots "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it will mean that there goes one of Hitler's staff officers...
Neither Mr. Untermyer nor Mr. Pecora had reckoned on Senator Carter Glass, who was loth to see his ward, the Federal Reserve Board, in the role of margin clerk to the nation. Few days later the peppery little Virginia Senator marched into the Banking & Currency Committee, whose headlined sessions he is usually too busy to attend, and jammed through an amendment creating a separate stock exchange commission to administer the whole bill- just what President Whitney has been demanding. A thumping victory for the bill's opponents. Senator Glass's revolt cleared the way for thoroughgoing revision...
Twenty-four hours later in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building a clerk in Judge Finnegan's court room called "The State of Illinois v. Martin J. Insull, Samuel Insull...
Several hours later Prisoner Insull, having been fingerprinted and having received back his watch and his $21 in cash from the clerk of the county jail, was set free. He walked out carrying a black suitcase of imitation leather and drove off with his son-in-law, Major William Rafferty...