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...Barkley, the high chamber floundered bravely for a while in a dismal sea of statistics. When North Dakota's Langer took the floor next day for the opposition, the senatorial audience dropped to a single listener. The Senators discussed wheat prices in Kansas, the profits of Henry J. Kaiser, the sex life of Government employes and, when time hung heavy, the loan...
...with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf...
...Picked last week as the Kaiser-Frazer representative for Newburgh and Beacon...
Died. Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, 53, wartime vice chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He steered Henry Kaiser into shipbuilding, plumped loudly for a long-range program to make the U.S. a postwar maritime power...
Other steelmakers said they were having a hard time meeting the demands of old customers, let alone those of newcomers. Nevertheless, the K-F hullabaloo worked its usual magic. At week's end Kaiser announced triumphantly that U.S. Steel and Great Lakes Steel (subsidiary of National Steel) had promised enough steel. Now Joe & Henry would not have to depend on aluminum. Nevertheless, they obligingly piled some 460 lbs. atop a piece to show its strength...