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...Miss Perkins was having tea with friends near Manhattan's Washington Square when the cry of "Fire!" sent them tumbling to the street. There before her eyes 146 factory girls were burned to a crisp in the great Triangle Shirtwaist fire. That fire started a reform movement for industry which Miss Perkins still reads. As a member of a committee on safety, she went to Albany, lobbied through legislation for factory fire prevention. There, too, she met three young legislators-Al Smith, Bob Wagner and Franklin Roosevelt-who have been her great & good friends ever since...
...munitions that he found piled up in all the ports of France. Since then he has always been General Atterbury and he likes it. He has a military abruptness, a military insistence on having things done right. His clothes are always faultlessly cut, his shirt and starched collar always crisp, his ties always polkadot. He always dresses for dinner, even on his private car between New York and Philadelphia. It bothers him to see a friend light the wrong end of a cigar...
...weekly Kiplinger letter, issued by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, is as speculative as the Cabinet guess. More typical are Kiplinger's shrewd and crackling appraisals of current news. These he gives in a blunt, crisp style tuned to his client...
Promptly the Premier issued a decree which South Africans did not at first understand to mean that they had gone off the gold standard. A day & night of hectic rumors passed before Finance Minister Havenga stated with crisp, Dutch lucidity exactly what the Cabinet had done and what its action means. "The only way to prevent a financial disaster of the first magnitude," said Minister Havenga. "was to release the Reserve Bank from liability to redeem its notes in gold. . . . The Government did so release the Reserve Bank and thereby it cut the link by which South African currency...
Putting the concession which he deems indispensable into one crisp sentence, President Alessandri said soon after his election: "Foreign companies in Chile which worked full time when returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were...