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Secretary of the Interior. Harold L. Ickes (pronounced "Ick-us"), 58, of Chicago, is a Midwest maverick appointed as a reward to progressive Republican bolters. He was recommended to the President-elect by Republican Senators Johnson of California and Cutting of New Mexico after they had both rejected Cabinet bids. The Ickes appointment started loud grumbles among Illinois' Democratic leaders who were completely ignored in the selection...
...Impeached (183-to-142) California's U. S. District Judge Harold Louderback...
...pose the Alpha and Omega of modern economic theory to readers of the March issue. The between cover and above-board fight between the article entitled "The Technocratic Terror," by T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, and the essay "Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years...
...only after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman on the chest and another on the head. Bowler Larwood was loudly barracked (jeered). The Australian Board of Cricket Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club of London that his methods were unsporting. The Maryle-bone-which...
...Harold Leonard Stuart, white-haired president of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Insuil bankers, insisted that most of his firm's profits from Insuil deals were on paper, that the final collapse had washed most of them away. The Senators were curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never...