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...active support of the British Government. In the U. S., Congress provided for an analogous agency in a rider to the Securities Act of 1933, but because this smacked of dollar diplomacy President Roosevelt instigated a private agency called the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council now headed by Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Last week the Council published its annual report for 1936. An 866-page study in U. S. gullibility, it was the most complete record of the country's investment abroad ever compiled...
...Students from Berea College, Kentucky, danced odd "running sets," sang a version of the ballad Barbara Allen which Samuel Pepys knew. Tall, good-looking Reuben Taylor, an Oxford graduate who prefers to stay in the mountains and raise blackberries, sang ballads with Kentucky's Homeplace Mountain Center Group...
...shallow grave in an orange grove near Tel Aviv was discovered the moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...
...company held a jamboree in celebration of the opening of the fifth addition to the plant, the 25th anniversary of its entrance into the manufacture of heating equipment and the 50th anniversary of its founding as an obscure plumbing shop by James A. Trane. Plumber Trane's son Reuben went to the University of Wisconsin where he was captain of the crew. Not long after he graduated in 1910, his father decided to incorporate as a manufacturer of heating and plumbing supplies, made Son Reuben president, the job he has held ever since...
Father Trane is dead and it was Son Reuben who put the company into air conditioning. Progress was slow. As late as 1920 there were only 40 on Trane's payroll, only 159 by 1927. Today the total is nearly 1,000. On the day the new plant was opened last month with speeches, dancing and free beer, all the La Crosse employes chipped in to buy a half-page newspaper advertisement, surprising their boss with a THANK YOU, MR. TRANE...