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Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
...MOP. In 1929 Missouri Pacific R. R. stock was eyed curiously because of a long, unspectacular but steady rise in price. Not until long after the stock-market crash did the public learn the reason why: Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers had been quietly buying control. The Brothers Van Sweringen put $86,000,000 into MOP securities, paid better than $80 a share for the common stock majority. Last week MOP stock sold at $1.25. Borne down with a weary load of debt and dwindling earnings, MOP subsided into bankruptcy...
Roosevelt's railroad schemes wherever-whenever the Coordinator sees a reorganization needed (see p. 53). MOP's bankruptcy was precipitated by a $35,000,000 bond issue maturing May 1. From the R. F. C. it had already borrowed $23,000,000 in the last year and lately it had been requesting R. F. C. funds to pay interest on earlier R. F. C. loans...
...pouting, mop-headed onetime Film Actress Mae Murray, 39. Her case: The floor was uneven, she injured her left foot. She called the verdict "vindication, since many artists injured while working in theatres have to make the best of it because they are not in a position...
Meanwhile big-eyed mop-haired Joe Zangara sat in his high Miami cell rubbing his aching stomach and repeating: "If I could eat, I no kill anybody." He appeared without remorse, explaining that his animosity ran against Mr. Roosevelt only as President-elect, not as an individual. Police investigation revealed the following case history...