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Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands...
...each with eight oars protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...
...started the American munitions industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates, hennes, hogs and horses' dung...
With Henry Ford so near, Ford of Canada's President Wallace R. Campbell might as well be right in the Dearborn offices. But the other leading representative of Ford abroad lives and works in reasonable independence. Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, the precise, erect, hard-driving chairman of Ford of England, is really Mr. Ford's General European Manager. On his board sit men like the Baron Illingworth of Denton, P. C., and Sir John Thomas Davies, K. C. B., C. V. O., but Sir Percival takes his orders from Dearborn, where rests Ford of England...
...Yorkers who in 1883 built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate...