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Last week the nation's bankers met again, this time in New Orleans, home town of retiring ABA President Rudolf S. Hecht. The climate was milder, the bankers bolder, the New Dealers more conciliatory...
...works he shown himself with great emphasis to be a social satirist, pacifist, radical, and an ant-Nazist, and before coming to America he was extremely bitter in portraying German life, especially the bourgeoisie class. Since his departure from his native land, however, he has become much milder in his treatment of subjects, perhaps because he has not yet learned American life and customs well enough to bring forth the full fury of his biting satire...
...great empire-builder, Field Marshal Prince Yamagata. Matsuoka's appointment as President of S. M. R. means that Japan's most determined militarists again dominate the Government. Smart, they put up a great smoke screen of announcements last month that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was appointing "milder men" to key posts...
...Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered, even attempted some of Loyola's milder exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope...
...providing that unessential holding companies more than one degree removed from operating companies should be dissolved by the Securities & Exchange Commission within seven years. This was precisely what President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes shy of a majority to sustain the Senate's action, President Roosevelt demanded a record vote...