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...Average Golfer shoots 85 to 100; is tickled pink if he pars two or three holes in an afternoon; he is the mainstay of all golf (Continued on p. 8) clubs and courses; he is generally a sucker for some professional, and without his support the professional golfer would disappear like the famous snowball in Hades...
...salute. With 15 tanks in front, 15 behind, the Presidential car led a parade up to the Capitol, around its plaza, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Franklin Roosevelt had assured the presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted in the parade had to wear Army uniforms (sergeants). A spectator caught doing the manual of arms with a marine's rifle was instantly arrested...
Business, as represented by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, last week launched a concerted drive upon Congress to do for it that which Franklin Roosevelt has not done (see p. 67). In particular the Chamber was pointing for a helpful tax bill, which Senator Bankhead's move, if adopted, would make impossible. No such bill has yet been written or even formally discussed, but from the House last week Business received one pleasant surprise. The Ways & Means Committee, preparing to carry out the Treasury's recommended revision of the Security laws, voted not only to freeze...
...Representative Harold Knutson, Minnesota Republican, caused Majority Leader Sam Rayburn deep pain with the following "unfortunate" remarks about Franklin Roosevelt's reception for President Somoza of Nicaragua (see p. 15): "Heading the parade was a White House limousine bearing that great democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the stern dictator from Nicaragua, sitting side by side carrying on an amiable conversation. . . . Overhead droned hundreds of aircraft, burning the taxpayers' money...
...slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls 13% of the world...