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Employes of Phillips Petroleum Co. refer to it as "Phillips Pete." Sharp-eyed Founder Frank Phillips, now chairman, is called "Uncle Frank." Heavy-set President K. S. Adams has been titled "Boots" ever since he went wading in a Kansas City flood. Slight, bespectacled President Thomas B. Hudson of The Polymerization Process Corp., Phillips Pete's favorite offspring, answers to "Tubby." This nicknamed outfit last week registered $25,000,000 in debentures with SEC. Wall Street was sure they would have an easy sale-for in polymerization, Phillips Pete is fathering the latest technique in gasoline manufacture...
...Barkley, while traveling 1,500 miles a week and speaking five or six times a day, mostly keeps his coat on, preserves his dignity, discusses his record (99% perfect) as a Roosevelt supporter, reiterates Franklin Roosevelt's appeal for his return. His meetings open with "America." His introducers refer to him as "the next President of the United States." From the platform, Almighty God is frequently invoked in his behalf. A typical Barkley exhortation...
...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...
...year is 1935-36, and the figures refer to atmospheric impurities in English tons per square mile...
...them put on their thinking caps and try to define clearly and concisely what men mean, if anything, in speaking of the "New Deal." Of those above only Reader Ledvina appears even to have tried. Is "New Deal" merely an emotional term of praise or distaste, or does it refer to a philosophy of government (whether good...