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Bear Parade. Before the committee reviewing stand began to pass a parade of almost legendary figures-men whose names committeemen and the Wall-Street-conscious public had linked with million-dollar deals, but whose persons had hitherto been concealed in the abysses of Wall Street. Leading the parade was Matthew Chauncey Brush. In marked contrast to Mr. Whitney's quiet precision (which irritated Chairman Norbeck to the point of shouting: "You're hopeless!") was the bluff readiness-to-tell-all of Witness Brush. Mr. Brush greeted Counsel Gray (an old friend), blithely told how he started in Boston...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...
...From a meeting of Republican national committeemen in Washington to arrange convention details word was passed out that 25 of the 53 members of the platform committee were already Wet and ready to support a referendum plank, while at least 535 of the 1,154 delegates will take a more liberal stand on Prohibition...
...manufacturers' sales which, it was estimated, would net the Treasury an extra $600,000,000 per year. Before this piece of tax timber could be put officially into the bill, certain exemptions had to be whittled out and administrative provisions chopped in. But committeemen, Republicans and Democrats alike, were so enthusiastic about this imported levy, even in the rough, that they declared it was a "sure thing." The committee was faced with this fiscal problem: to balance the 1933 budget about $1,250,000.000 had to be raised by new taxes. Upping rates on estates and incomes, individual...
...General Dawes was called by a Congressional sub-committee (Republican) to testify, as General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F., on War expenditures. Under the detailed questioning of the committeemen. he lost patience and exploded: "Damn it all! The business of any army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying." Continuing to swear, he kept the air thick with oaths for which he said he had neither apology nor excuse...