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...American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...with the convention at hand. Candidate Roosevelt suddenly wanted to ditch Mr. Shouse as permanent chairman. The Governor's friends declared that Mr. Shouse had won support at the April meeting by trickery and misrepresentation, that he was hostile to the Roosevelt candidacy, had covertly worked against it and that, anyway, a "commendation," unlike a "recommendation," was not binding...
...Democrats approved of such steamroller tactics. Alfred Emanuel Smith gave a luncheon for 14 of his principal supporters who vowed they would "back to the last ditch" Mr. Shouse's selection. James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, sided with Mr. Shouse. Declared he: "The issue is unimportant since no principle is involved. Contention over essentials exhibits virility of character, over nonessentials, stupidity. . . . The rejection of Mr. Shouse would be nothing short of studied humiliation of a man who has given his time and talents in furtherance of the most essential reorganization of any political party...
Eleven of the twelve Governors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks met extraordinarily in Washington last week to un-kink another bad knot in the credit rope with which they are trying to pull the country out of its economic ditch. From Boston New York and Philadelphia, from Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas, from Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis, from Minneapolis and San Francisco, they answered the call for consultation from Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, overlord of the nations credit and currency. Only George Henry Hamilton Governor of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, failed to appear...
Under the circumstances, it is a misfortune to find the Boston "Traveller" in discussing the situation editorially, making self-complacent remarks about the willingness of peace-loving nations, (by which the United States is of course meant,) to "fight to the last ditch" against warring nations which disturb our interests and our efforts for peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases...