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...Rubber, who in 30 years of dealing with labor has consistently urged moderation, cooperation; Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of the board of Standard Oil of N. J., a top-notch production man with a knack for getting on with oilmen; Eugene Meyer, millionaire publisher (Washington Post), ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernard Baruch's financial right hand on the War Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, organizer and vice president...
...busy riding Michigan's Epworth League circuit that he could no longer get back to Charlotte on Sundays, pious ex-Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson (81) announced regretfully that he would have to give up the Bible Class at the Center Eaton Methodist Church over which he had presided regularly for 55 years-never more regularly than when all he had to do was run Michigan...
Attendance was only soso during the House debate, and slender to sparse at the Senate hearings, except when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...
...Running against ex-Governor Brann for Senator was Republican Congressman Ralph Brewster, who won the nomination after a bitter fight that left scars. For Governor, Sumner Sewall, World War I hero, president of the State Senate, was the Republican candidate opposed to Fulton Jarvis Redman, former newspaper publisher...
...Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime president of National City Bank of New York...