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In California's courts and press last week three hardheaded, self-made midwesterners were locked in noisy battle for control of the largest building and loan company in the U. S.-the $50,000,000 Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan...
As hefty, two-fisted* Author Ernest Hemingway sat in a swank Manhattan nightspot, one Eddie Chapman, broker, sneered: "So you're Hemingway? . . , Tough guy, huh?" and pushed him in the face. Said a friend at Hemingway's table: "Swat him but don't draw blood." Hemingway swatted...
In 1862 a hard-fisted Vermont pioneer named Albert Arnold Sprague bumped out to Chicago in a covered wagon and went into the grocery trade. With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago. Sprague...
Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted Chairman Dies of the House's famed UnAmerican Committee, calling Mr. Dies "the outstanding zany* of...
Next Nürnberg number was 180,000 husky, two-fisted, district leaders of the Nazi Party from all over the Reich. "I could blindly depend on you!" the Führer told them with rising fervor, "[Germany] is determined to capitulate to no one!"