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...dividing the spoils, others dreaming mainly of doing great deeds. But there comes a time in every administration when dreamers fall out. Last week that time came to the Roosevelt Administration. The fact that it was caused largely by conflicting zeal among the President's followers did not dampen the rancor it produced...
...Last week President Roosevelt held fast to his managed currency program. The Treasury upped the price of gold to $34.01. To dampen persistent tales of a rift between the Treasury and the hard-money Federal Reserve Board, Governor Eugene Black, by all odds the funniest and funniest-looking man in the Administration, showed up at Warm Springs. While his chief was paddling about the tepid swimming pool, Governor Black stood nearby, sorrowfully rattled a copy of the Atlanta Constitution which headlined the recurrent story that he was about to resign. "It isn't so much that...
...Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...
First kick was a declaration that revolt was smoldering. To dampen it President Terra laid down a strict censorship, sent troops to take over Montevideo waterworks, power houses and jails from officials appointed by the Administrative Council. He forbade a Batllista meeting, had its ward clubs occupied...
...Women Accused" originally cooked up by the "World's Ten Greatest Authors" in the cauldrons of Liberty Hall, may perfectly be classed as a Hughes success with little Baum in the gallery. The essential principle is calculated to dampen the kerchiefs of high school damsels and police commissioners. There is Nancy Carroll swatting somebody or other behind the ear with a pretty green statue of September Morn, there is Cary Grant rigged out in the yachting costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder...