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Confirmed by the Senate were the appointments of Charles Gates Dawes to be president of R. F. C. and Jesse Holman Jones and Harvey Crowley Couch to be directors (TIME, Feb. 1). A new Senate rule stipulating that no Presidential appointee may be sworn in until two executive sessions of the Senate have taken place after his confirmation, was waived. President Dawes and his board rolled up their sleeves and started to work. Applications to share the $2,000,000,000 credit fund, with which the Administration hopes to check the downward spiral of deflation, poured into the Treasury offices...
...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
...ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly switches her affections to him. When...
John Webster Thomas, 51, was elected president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., succeeding Founder Harvey Samuel Firestone who became chairman after being president 29 years. Fortnight ago Mr. Firestone pleased stockholders when he told them the company had earned almost four times as much in 1931 as in 1930. Last week, they were reassured, the new title did not mean his retirement. John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner...
Appointed, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, director of surgery at Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Harvard 1909; to succeed his onetime teacher and friend, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, as Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Both were famed as surgeons on the Western Front...