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...machine; his remarks on the subject of what has already been done at Dearborn would not have carried the weight they now do. Henry, of course, believes that years from now, when the President's fair weather friends have left him, when the storms of capitalist opposition howl mercilessly about the White House, he will come to the fore with his support; we will then move on to the new social era, which is going to be "a millennium of justice and plenty...
Quality, Of more permanent interest and much more complicated is the question of liquor quality. Nowhere did the tempest of liquor controversy howl louder than in New York City. Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne, retiring with a bang to set up an analysis bureau of his own and to serve as adviser to Kings Brewery at $15,000 a year, had examined samples of spirits being sold in his jurisdiction, found many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label...
...City National Bank. In 1928 when City National was still teetering from the collapse of the land boom and the damage of the Great Hurricane, James Cash Penney and his associates bought control, injected $2,000,000 of fresh capital. When the winds of Depression began to howl, another $1,000,000 was put in. Early in 1930 Boardchairman Penney wrote an open letter to depositors urging faith in a "greater Miami." Before the year-end City National closed its doors forever. Last week James Cash Penney had reason to think Floridans ingrates. Fifty-three unhappy City National depositors...
Still to be chosen were committees for Chicago, Detroit, Santa Fe, California. No sooner had the list been published than a resounding howl arose from academicians, long used to a monopoly of government decoration. Museum directors in every case headed the committees, but in those cities that had many museums the chairmanship seemed to fall to the curator who had the greatest sympathy for modernists. The New York Committee, which in the nature of things will have the greatest number of indigent artists to provide for, was viewed with greatest alarm. Smart Mrs. Juliana Force is the widow...
...store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth its cost. But they were sure that if Pennsylvania...