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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference with the Governors of those States, Wyoming and Montana; thence to Wisconsin for a conference with the Governors of Wisconsin and Minnesota, thence to Iowa for a conference with the Governors of-he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he recited the list of States-Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas...
Parade. First item on the program was the parade. The Olympic Bell tolled and into the stadium marched 5,000 athletes. Leading, because their country started the Olympic Games in 776 B. C., were the Greeks. Next, at the head of the German alphabetical list were the Egyptians. Loudest applause went to Austrians who gave the Nazi salute, to goose-stepping Bulgarians, to a Swiss flag-bearer who did juggling tricks. English athletes got few cheers. Next to last, the U. S. team members saluted Realmleader Hitler by placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped...
...changers have not been driven from the temple," declared Radio-priest Charles Edward Coughlin last week in his letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt apologizing for having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly, and even...
...ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...
...Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of age put to death. "As though the list of his numerous crimes were not yet long enough," comments Author Minkin, ". . . his name was taken for what the world considers one of the blackest and most abnormal outrages." Probably Herod died at Jericho, four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with...