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This brindle-haired, gruff-voiced man with a plainsman's capacity for a broad grin and an equal capacity for downright anger at what he considers foul play, managed Coolidge's Minnesota campaign in 1924. He was the sort of honest man Coolidge appreciated and five years later, in the early days of booming 1929, that President named him to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Republican he was elected chairman last January in time to execute Democrat Roosevelt's attack on bad security selling. He helped write the Securities Act, and today stands eager to enforce...
Four Chicago aldermen were in Hot Springs, Ark. last week not for the baths but to select a mayor for their city. The Illinois Legislature had refused to call a special election to fill the vacancy left by assassinated Anton Joseph Cermak. Gruff old Boss Patrick Nash, who succeeded Cermak on the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Governor Henry Homer had then nudged a bill through the Legislature permitting the City Council. Democratic 37 to 13, to choose Chicago's chief executive...
Last week New York City had another chance to see how a gruff, sturdy Irish professional, up from the ranks, could handle its crime problem in a year of Depression. Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney issued his report for 1932. Major crimes had decreased from 1931. Total felonies were 23,599 against 28,597. Crimes of violence went down from 6,815 to 6,634. There were 2,417 burglaries against 2,678 the previous year, 13,468 grand larcenies...
Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...vote, taken alphabetically in French, began with a clerk's piping cry "Union Sud-Africaine !" and the gruff reply from that British dominion...