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...perfect his measure as a companion-piece to the Federal Reserve Act which he pushed through the House of Representatives 20 years ago. He had to battle a bankers' lobby dead set against further Federal restrictions. He had to overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose...
Early last September a plow-nosed man with a beard alighted from a bus at Whittier, in the Great Smoky Mountains, 60 mi. west of Asheville, N.C. Soon most of Whittier's 287 inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...Mills, as the President's spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended to the smallest merchant, the one-plow farmer, the corner bootblack...
Adman Younggreen viewed his step as "hot news." Previous hotspots in his upward rush from obscurity in Kansas: U. S. Air Corps in the War (emerging a captain); sales manager for J. I. Case Plow Works in Racine; presiding over the International Advertising Meeting in Berlin (1929); telling the U. S. Press, upon returning from Europe, that while his wife was dancing in a London night club she touched the Prince of Wales (TIME...