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...vastly pleased the white-crested patriarch, therefore, to return home and find his name bruited about as the new national industrial coordinator, to read such newspaper headlines as BARUCH RISES AGAIN AS FORCE IN U. S. AFFAIRS. "I like to think of myself," the smiling Jew once told a friend, "as the Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson...
...Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses in 1931 and 1932, his Hawaiian Pineapple Co. was reorganized, and Castle & Cooke took a hand in its management...
...gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham trod the same soil...
...time in three years the Mormons met with a full .organization, vacancies having been filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference, he is believed by all Mormons to be "guided by the spirit of God and His will to have said such advice as is good...
ONCE A WILDERNESS - Arthur Pound - Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A Michigan patriarch wields benevolent despotism over his broad acres. A comfortable ''realistic'' romance of U. S. farming before horsepower became invisible...