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...part proudly announced that the average value per ton of its ore had been $16.13, against an average of $6.35 at the Rand mines of South Africa, producers of half the world's gold. Benguet and Balatoc, managed by John W. Haussermann, a U. S. citizen long resi- dent in Manila, comprise about 80% of the Philippine gold industry. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, Benguet stock (par value: 5?) is traded over the counter. Current price: $15. Near Benguet's holdings at Baguio, Philippine summer resort north of Manila, there were 16 other companies in 1932, including...
This has carried me into a discussion of those who join lobbies, of those who fight corruption, and of those who have actually mixed in politics. It is foolish to think of any student group bucking corruption or in any other way making a dent in the political set-up as it exits today. But where the student can find his way behind the scenes, where he can fight some political grafter, where he can make his mark felt, he ought to participate to some degree, NOT because he is entering politics or public life or in any other...
...cooker in the basement of R. H. Macy & Co.'s big Manhattan department store last week, 300 wide-eyed women were swimming in her wake. Six private detectives kept them at a respectful distance as they trailed her up to the fifth floor. There they made hardly a dent in the crowd already on hand at Macy's leisure school. Purpose of this school was to show some 30.000 New Yorkers per day what to do with the spare time that was supposedly theirs under NRA codes of shorter hours and higher pay. The Advisory Board of Macy...
...sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little time or inclination for him at the end of her crowded...
...directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among the small army of Presidential spokesmen in that august body...