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Last year Congress granted the Securities & Exchange Commission the power to hurl thunderbolts into almost any corporation it saw fit. Instead of exercising such an Olympian prerogative, as U. S. Business fearfully predicted, SEC has proved to be a tolerant and forbearing body. Last week for the first time SEC thundered in august wrath. Object: Baldwin Locomotive Works...
...Sorely vexed the Japanese Government by debating with Olympian superiority whether Great Britain's duty is to "intervene and mediate" between China and Japan...
...Manhattan last spring a New York City detective named Louis Barr found Vincent Burke, director of the Olympian League of Nudists, sitting at a desk in front of Topel's Swimming School. Mr. Burke had rented the establishment for a nudist assembly, in brazen violation, Detective Barr suspected, of State laws against lewdness, indecency and nuisances...
...detective showed Mr. Burke a letter inviting a "Dear Friend" to the Olympian League's annual Nudism Forward Campaign. "How much would it cost?" "One dollar for single men, or single or married couples," answered Mr. Burke. Detective Barr had a Miss Anna Brady, a policewoman in plain clothes, with him. Both entered...
...Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some were impressed by Publisher Harper's proud announcement that two editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...