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...White House was kept informed on the bill's progress but President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers suspected skulduggery. When it was discovered that Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank had been in touch with Messrs. Glass and Townsend on the telephone, the Senators were loudly accused of selling out to Wall Street...
Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
...Laval forced them to work with him all day, drafting an emergency-powers law much more limited in scope than had previously been asked. Partial victory came when the Chamber Finance Committee approved the text. Then Premier Laval went straight to the Chamber at 6 p. m., paid no heed to his frigid reception without cheers, asked the suspicious Deputies to approve a bill of one single article reading thus...
...Libman's method of detecting a patient's degree of sensitivity: he gets up, walks around the room, accosts the patient. "What seems to be the matter with you?" The patient tries to explain. Dr. Libman apparently pays little heed. He pats the patient's head, glides his right palm down the patient's neck, slyly presses his thumb, first against the tip of the mastoid bone ("Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?"), then against the styloid process just below the ear, "Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt...
...shocked were newshawks by these lugubrious words, that they gave scant heed to two interesting observations by this rich steelmaster who grew richer out of Wartime manufacture of arms...