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Senator Logan: I do not think any Member of the U. S. Senate should be allowed to practice law. ... So far as money and property are concerned, I suspect I am the poorest man in the Senate. . . . But I would find some other way of making a living without accepting fees from those who have business with the Congress of the U. S. or I would go home and resign...
General Johnson who made a speech, blunt, picturesque, reproachful, conciliatory. Excerpts: "We have been accused of a diabolical desire to impose a censorship on the Press. Considering the articles in opposition to the president's program, we certainly have made the poorest kind of mess, if control of the agencies of publicity was one of our objects...
...first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular, he was elected president in 1929 just before the lean Rolls' years began. Best Rolls' year was 1926 when the net profit was $524,000. Poorest was 1931. when its deficit reached $745,000. No dividend has ever been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred now total $78.75 per share. Last week there was no Brewster in Brewster & Co. to be proud...
...increase over November 1932-best comparative gain of the year. Reflecting new prosperity in the South and some areas of the Middle West, sales of mail-order stores (which also operate chains) registered the widest advance. Sears, Roebuck reported a 27.2% gain over last year, Montgomery Ward, 25.3%. Poorest performers were the grocery chains...
Fact Judged by U. S. standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite. Last week the Japanese mite was fixed, for patriotic purposes, at five sen (1? current exchange). Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a "War Chest" of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven...