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...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
...perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities by decree laws, Governor Tannery felt so good last week that he indulged in a loud fiscal cock-a-doodle...
...currency has been defended against attacks of every kind and now offers increased guarantees for secure investment," crowed Cock Tannery. "No other country possesses such enormous reserves of funds at present hoarded. Although deplorable in itself, this factor, which has been harmful up to the present. may now be turned to use and in the battle against Depression be made to play the role of fresh troops coming into battle and bringing Victory with them...
...smart Lieut. Colonel Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...
...town of 50,395 inhabitants. By all odds the fieriest spirit among them was Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, late lieutenant colonel of the Union Army. In his own words, he nourished "a tremendous and abiding faith in the future of Los Angeles"-and its climate. This bewhiskered turkey-cock boomed the town into a city, made money as it grew, built himself a fine home called "The Bivouac" and mounted his bellicose eagle on a building at First and Broadway studded with granite battlements and buttresses...