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Last week, the Senate Banking & Currency Committee decided it was time to lock the RFC's job-placement door. It approved a bill that would bar RFC officials who have lending discretion from accepting jobs with RFC borrowers for two years after loans are made. Speedy congressional passage was likely...
...Senators were also looking for other doors to lock. With the Army tracking down the shennanigans of "Five-Percenters" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler thought the Government ought to go after its own ex-officials who practice law before the same agencies they once bossed...
...Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...
...missed few bets. At night, before locking up, Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy stores in other towns, looked around for likely local partners. By 1912, he had 34 stores, grossing $2,000,000 a year...