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...pensions and unemployment insurance, brought to the fore by New Deal proposals...
...made news in Texas. For years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
...singing "Do Not Trust Him, Gentle Lady" over the telephone. While Bell was abroad Watson took charge of their enterprises at home. In 1881 he retired, hungry for new experiences. He tried farming, married, became interested in marine motors. A one-room shop with two helpers grew into the Fore River Ship & Engine Co. which employed 4.000 men and built the Navy's first destroyers. He lost control in the depression of 1903. He prospected for gold in Death Valley and Alaska. In his old age he turned to painting, scurried around Europe studying old masters. The first transcontinental...
...long such tirades might have continued had not Rufus Daniel Isaacs been in the House is conjectural. This Jew of Jews, this Disraelian paragon of Empire, the great Marquess of Reading, was Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21), be fore he became High Commissioner and Special Envoy to borrow wartime millions in the U. S. through J. P. Morgan ;; Co. Gently interposing last week, Rufus Daniel Isaacs proposed to rephrase the offending clause, "so that it should not operate to the prejudice of anybody now a Lord Justice...
...stood their customary ground as stolidly as oaks. But in U. S. sales of contemporary paintings, observers noted a significant difference. This year the French schools seem to be slipping in popular favor while a U. S. school, bent on portraying the U. S. scene, is coming to the fore...