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...summer of 1929 Mr. Williams and Mr. Catchings joined forces and raised a shower of fireworks over Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. had (besides ventures in Chicago's Foreman Bank and the Detroit banking situation) acquired a stake in Pacific Coast utilities. Turning eastward Mr. Catchings cast his eye on the great North American...
Later in the week Charles Edwin Mitchell was formally indicted for "wilfully attempting to defeat and evade" the Federal income tax. The foreman of the grand jury considered the occasion so momentous that the day he handed down the indictment he dressed in morning coat and striped trousers...
Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
...reduction of expenditure the president elect will be in no fair position to redeem his campaign pledges to the country. This bill proposes a centralization of action and of responsibility, a step eminently valid, and it is certainly a tragic irony which decrees that Mr. McNary, its most avowed foreman in the Senate, should have met his baptism of fame beneath the aegis of the Farm Relief Bill of painful memory...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...