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...lend them but perhaps the R. F. C. had. Around taxied the four mayors to inter view R. F. C. Chairman Jones. No. R. F. C. had nothing for them either but they might take their appeal to Congress. Up Capitol Hill they chugged, there called on Speaker Rainey and Vice President Garner. Yes, Congress was very busy and, without the President's recommendation it was unlikely that anything could be done but they could present their case to the Senate Finance Committee. They did, without encouragement. Before starting for Boston, Mayor Curley declared: "We feel we are making...
...animals are part of a memorial gate to the late Paul James Rainey, famed big game hunter. Cleveland coal & coke scion (TIME, Oct. i, 1923). Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...
Working in his Paris studio, Paul Manship gave a year to the sketches for Paul Rainey's gate. He mapped American brown bear and deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full...
...night last week five men filed softly into the White House and sat down with President Roosevelt for a secret talk. They were his legislative lieutenants at the Capitol-Vice President Garner, Speaker Rainey, Senate Leader Robinson, House Leader Byrns and Senator Pat Harrison. There had been in the month past many such night conferences at the White House whence participants had returned to Congress with their Presidential orders. But this one was different. The five Democrats emerged with their lips sealed. Not until the next day did the meeting become generally known and even then other Senators and Representatives...
...will be said at the White House about this unfair method of international competition. The Agenda Commission, rejecting bimetallism, recommends increased subsidiary coinage of silver-a recommendation that started rumors that the U. S., Britain and France were to buy $1,000,000.000 of silver for that purpose.- Speaker Rainey, a silverite. ordered all silver legislation shelved in the House on the ground that the World Conference alone was able to deal with the issue...