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...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example, her first meander, starting from a glass dragon on her mantelpiece, peters out with a goldfish in Hollywood that swooned during an earthquake and had to be revived with salt water...
...accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
Since SEChairman Kennedy is known to favor "goldfish bowl'' publicity for corporate salaries, last week's action foreshadowed more disclosures at the expense of executives who do not want the world to know what they are making. Not yet released from SEC's "confidential" files are the salaries of such tycoons as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel...
...miniature, it was. Just two years ago the industrial researcher for Speculator Bernard Mannes Baruch had bellowed to newshawks that NRA was to be operated "in a goldfish bowl." Last week Hugh Johnson met Manhattan reporters with the promise that in disbursing New York City's share of the new four-billion-dollar work relief fund he wanted to "give it all a public airing." And he had been only a little more sanguine about taking over NRA and putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark...