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...defeating Mr. Lehman at Albany and then encumbered the party ticket with Walker's renomination in New York City. Governor Roosevelt's chances of carrying New York State would become slim indeed. But the Democratic presidential nominee still had one mighty weapon with which to bludgeon Tammany into line??? prospective Federal patronage. Boss Curry knew only too well that as far as Federal jobs were concerned Governor Roosevelt could, if elected, put Tammany on starvation rations for four years...
...Chase Securities, Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Co., E. F. Hutton, chairman of Postum Co., Inc. President is John H. Markham, Jr., head of the Exchange Bank of Tulsa, Okla., an independent oil opera tor. Petroleum Corp. will make its initial investments in Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line???the two oil companies whose Rockefeller holdings (TIME, Dec. 10) were recently purchased by Blair...
...commended by Lieutenant Allan Snody, did not get very far. Four hundred miles from the California beaches it was forced down by a groken oil pressure line???a surprising, an unfortunate accident. The PN-9 No. 1 would, of course, continue. But the watchers under the Honolulu bulletin board were suddenly amazed to the toy that delighted them stop in its course, its little light...
...Brigadier General in full uniform of the United States Army enters. The only part missing on the regular uniform is the insignia on the collar. The General issues order to his Chief of Staff, who bellows the orders to another, and so on down the line???showing lack of coordination of system and bringing the United States Army into ridicule...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line???work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all?is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...