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...Loesch chose for the subject of his speech which he delivered in Langdell Hall last night "The Duty a Lawyer Owes to the Public." In 1929 Mr. Loesch was one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement, being appointed by President Hoover. Previously, Mr. Loesch had been the state's attorney of Cook County...
...Cook County, he helped put many gangsters behind the bars. During his career as a lawyer in Chicago, Mr. Loesch was special state's attorney for Cook County to investigate frauds, and chief special assistant attorney general of Illinois, to investigate bombings and kidnappings in elections. In 1929, President Hoover appointed Mr. Loesch one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement...
Bookkeeping. Presidential candor rather than the extent of U. S. spending made the budget "staggering." If he had chosen to view the Government's finances as tycoons viewed their companies' finances in 1929-even as President Hoover did, and he himself last summer-he might have composed the same facts into a far milder picture. Hitherto RFC outlays have never been treated as expenditures. The RFC secured cash by selling its debentures to the Treasury. The Treasury treated the transaction not as an expenditure but as an investment (which it nominally was). Thus...
Money having become the paramount issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator...
...wheel-and-spring assembly is traditional but the axle is hinged in the centre by parallel bars, permitting each wheel to bounce independently. President Chapin is convinced that the public is more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep hole...