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...Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas...
...that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...
...Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought & paid for, seemed to many an oldster on the Floor to be no less shocking than the idea of an advertising campaign in behalf of the Union Club...
...elected Governor two years ago. A good speaker, he traveled and talked often during the primary campaign. Only obvious flaw in his political make-up was that he dressed exceedingly well, wore a different suit each day with harmonizing shirts, socks and neckties, setting off his handsome blue eyes. Oldster Moses referred to him acidly as "Little Boy Blue." Governor Bridges retorted that if Mr. Moses liked he would blow his horn but would not be found sleeping under any haystacks...
...great Baldwin Locomotive Works Showman Brady sent a letter on behalf of "William A. Brady & Brady Enterprises," refusing assent to the re-organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe out common stockholders"; 2) if reorganization had been...