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...Chicago Convention, Governor Roosevelt last week journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, addressed 30,000 jubilant Democrats in the Municipal Stadium. His was a dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies on recovery were cited. The G. O. P. assertion that the business collapse was world...
...Heard bankers flay a revised bill by Virginia's Glass to curb speculation on Federal Reserve credit as "deflationary and unwarranted...
...Heard Postmaster General Brown defend present airmail contracts, flay lower bids by "independent and irresponsible operators...
Collision is adapted from the German by John Anderson, New York Journal theatre critic who revised The Fatal Alibi. His confreres did not fail to flay his present flimsy farce, observing that Critic Anderson would have done likewise...
...direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by retired Storekeeper Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld. From this, Dr. Flexner's chief present concern, he took time last week once more to flay Columbia and Chicago. They, said he, "and many State universities, go into the marketplace, advertising their wretched claptrap in newspapers and in magazines. Some of these activities are little short of dishonest...