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...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...
...nationwide vote were taken to discover the most despised politico-social organization currently extant, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund would stand at least a fair chance of winning. A group of some 125,000 U. S. citizens of German blood and clubby tendencies, it is hated in the U. S. as an offspring of Naziism. In Germany it is apparently equally scorned by the Hitler Government: 1) as a feeble, provincial imitation, and 2) as a source of damaging publicity...
...advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina (now a politico-lawyer in Washington) and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. (now promoter of the Governors' conference). Shortly after the visitors emerged to let cameramen snap nine of the best political faces in the South (see cut), the White House issued the text of a resolution signed...
Control of a prominent French daily is a mark of success every French politician can understand. It means more than an obvious chance to spread propaganda; it means that the lucky politico has Backers...
...strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians call the Old Deal...