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While dapper, prolific Biographer Emil Ludwig was poking among historic relics in a Corsican museum, a bronze statue of Jerome Bonaparte, youngest of Napoleon's four brothers, toppled, cracked him smartly on the pate. Moaned Emil Ludwig: "I had too many things to say about Jerome ... in my book [Napoleon']. He has his vengeance...
That admission became the headache of tall Emil Schram, 45, who became Jesse Jones's successor as RFC Chairman. A successful Hoosier whose business was farming, timber, coal, he was made a member of RFC's board in 1936. From handling RFC loans to needy drainage and irrigation districts he was graduated to manager of RFC's business loan program. On the side he ran Electric Home and Farm Authority (set up to finance the sale of electrical appliances to home owners). One of the most capable members of RFC, his selection was backed both by conservative...
...hasty, perhaps piercing, was the conclusion leaped to by some commentators that Mr. Jones was elevated so that RFC's loan rate, which Mr. Jones has kept as near 4% as possible, might be lowered to 2½ % or even 2 %. Heir-apparent to the RFC chairmanship was Emil Schram, a member of Mr. Jones's board of directors since...
...Briggs local's smart little Vice President Emil Mazey popped out a demand for the same sort of union shop guarantee which John Lewis won for his coal miners last month...
Clara Driscoll and E. B. Germany have one thing very much in common: they are co-chairmen of the Texas Garner-for-President Club (five rooms, nine employes in Dallas). Proceeding on Garner's friend Emil Hurja's theory that early leaders stay on top, last week Mr. Germany and Mrs. Driscoll unmistakably pushed chaparral Jack Garner into the 1940 Presidential race† on a national scale. Over their signatures the T. G. F. P. Club appealed to 40,000 ranking Democrats throughout...