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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BANG! BANG! BANG! (revolver shots), "Racket! Racket! Racket! . . . You have been taken for a ride and don't know it. . . . Forced to pay hard-earned pennies for something that can be bought for half. . . . I want to help you stop being a victim of this racket. . . . If anyone tells you not to come and see me and learn how I can save you money, then that person is protecting his own interests. He is in cahoots with the billion-dollar insurance companies...
...Cosmopolitan Magazine named one Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood, Miss., "Miss Cosmopolitan." Next issue Cosmopolite Faith Baldwin, one of the judges, twittered: "She hasn't an atom of classic beauty but she's as pretty as spring in the South. . . . She has a certain pixie charm hard to define. She reminds me a little of Helen Hayes...
...place where it occurred. Far more conveniently situated to serve mid-continent railroad customers are the inland industrial centres which sprang up in the following decades. But last week, Baldwin's 11,000 stockholders had reason to feel lucky that Matthias Baldwin set up shop on tidewater hard-by naval shipyards. They were shown their luck when Baldwin reported its unfilled orders...
Since then the trust-busting division has been queasy of talking to industries it was prosecuting, fearful of laying itself open to the indignation of hard-boiled Federal Judges, and of public suspicion that it is using criminal inquiries as clubs to beat recalcitrant monopolists into a New Deal pattern. Last week, however, Harry Hopkins' Department of Commerce stepped into the advisory breach, announced a new Government service for harried antitrust case defendants...
Although Atlas paid him $35,000 per year, Alex Gumberg had no title and his duties were vague. He handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...