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...Emmet O'Malley, who has certain powers over General American, grew exceedingly alarmed, loudly called the whole deal a brazen violation of Texas insurance laws, declared he would ask the Texas insurance superintendent to join him in court action to set it aside. Moreover, said the jealous Missourian, Mr. Milton had coerced the Texans into buying the two companies by threats that control would otherwise be sold to "undesirable" persons. Meantime, Mr. Milton, having made a clear $830,000 profit for his investment trust on the deal, departed on a Bermuda vacation...
Shortest term (two years) went to Ralph Waldo Morrison, Texan utilitarian, whom President Roosevelt sent to the London Economic Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does...
...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
...third, a six on the fourth, and then made three birdies in succession to keep in the running. Jones had 71, Walter Hagen, back from a tour of Japan and needing practice, had 72 and so did blond, loose-jointed Horton Smith. 21-year-old Missourian whose effortless, powerful swing is stylistically better than any but that of Jones...