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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alert to the emergency General Glassford bobbed up on a bandstand near the Capitol's main steps. Commander Waters was arrested, clapped into the Capitol. Bellowed General Glassford to the rampant B. E. F.: "I don't want any trouble, but we'll have it if you don't get back. I told the Vice President I'd keep the plaza clear. When I say I'll do a thing...
Headquarters. Everett Sanders, new chairman of the National Committee, leased 90 rooms on the sixth floor of the Palmer House in Chicago as the party's main headquarters. Henry Justin Allen, bald and beaked, was installed as master of the mimeograph. Ray Benjamin, the President's quiet California friend, opened an office where he could take and make White House telephone calls undisturbed...
Cleveland is in the main stream of things modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
...partner of Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, which last week applied for membership in the New York Stock Exchange. If the application is accepted, the Stock Exchange will admit its first Chinese member-firm partner. Though Swan, Culbertson & Fritz will have its Manhattan office with Hayden, Stone & Co., the main office will be in Shanghai where the firm and Partner Khe-ling Yui have done business for a long time...