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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the action of the Senate in voting to deprive him of his power to devalue the dollar (see col. j). At Hyde Park he indulged in one of those coldly furious, sarcastic lectures which his press has heard before. He accused Congress of endangering the national defense, of returning power over the dollar to international speculators as it was in 1931. He singled out Felix Belair Jr., correspondent of the New York Times, for a special blast about big newspapers, whom he accused of wishing to see control of the money markets return to private hands. (Next...
...warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until last week. Sly Puss Winston Churchill purred gratefully when he heard them...
Purred back appeased Appeaser Lord Londonderry, longtime friend of Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop: "[I wish Mr. Churchill] were a member of the Government this moment." With a scrape heard round the world the Conservatives thus made Puss Churchill a path to a place by the fire, and politicos with second sight could already see Winston Churchill snuggled into a reorganized Chamberlain Cabinet, probably as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he filled brilliantly during the World War. In any case, with this great reconciliation a united Conservative Party could brave not only the perils of German aggression...
Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
Says Historian Conklin: "I once heard a distinguished physiologist say that there are two ways to gain recognition, either brag or fight. It seems to me that Schleiden did both...