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...Chamber of Com merce. Not much publicized are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Hickory Handle Association, the South western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group Rob ert Patterson Lament last week resigned as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Presi dent Charles Michael Schwab will retire to an inactive chairmanship...
Longtime head of American Steel Foundries, President Lament well knows the highly competitive steel business. Un like his predecessors he will devote all his time to the Institute, will receive a large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions...
Punctually at noon all Bat'a factory sirens began howling an eerie lament. Work ceased for the day. Again at 3 p. m. the sirens howled. In the factory yard a joint funeral service began for Thomas Bat'a and Pilot Heinrich Brouceck. Sixty thousand mourners, many of them peasants with black kerchiefs, marched past the catafalque hour after hour. In a husky voice that several times broke, Jan Bat'a read aloud Thomas Bat'a's will. It ignores his son Tommy as such, leaves all to the House...
...other arrangements of Holst to be rendered include: "The Shores of Harvard," "A Dirge for Two Veterans," "I Love My Love," "Hecuba's Lament," "Swansea Town," "Before Sleep," and "Psalm CXLVIII...
Enthusiastic about the general Russian cattle picture in Moscow last week was the son of the U. S. Secretary of Commerce. "This is the biggest and most interesting stock job in the whole world!" cried Cattleman Robert P. Lament Jr. "From what I have seen and heard already, they contemplate doing on a rapid and gigantic scale what is done gradually by individuals in our Western States?the transformation of cattle from longhorn, rangy animals with comparatively low meat product to modern shorthorn meat stock...