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¶ To write a note to Attorney General Cummings asking him "to take appropriate action" (i. e. prosecute under the anti-trust laws) against steel companies as the result of findings by the Federal Trade Commission that Secretary Ickes had been getting collusive bids on steel piling-an action which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Business, Pleasure & Politics | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Quick to pooh-pooh the furor over the Earle assault was Arkansas' tobacco-chewing Governor Junius Marion Futrell. Negro Weems's "funeral," he sputtered, was only strike propaganda. Negro Weems, he had been informed, was still alive. Though he failed to produce the missing Negro, Sheriff Howard Curlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: True Arkansas Hospitality | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Second, and more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Milestone for Kenyon | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

With Wilbur L. Cummings Jr. '37, taking two first places out of three events entered, the Flying Club won the New England Championship at Springfield yesterday afternoon. The Crimson gathered 23 points to Dartmouth's five and Amberst's two.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB TRIUMPHS | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

As he got out of his car in the alley back of his Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minneapolis Acquittal | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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