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Humper? G. O. P. strategists including Secretaries Mills and Hurley and Postmaster General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have...
...rescued, Tammany's Walker remarked: "Talk about the market! My blood pressure dropped seven points today to 103, a new low!"* In Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial relief also came into sight last week when the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to revamp Cook County's taxing machinery. A non-political taxing board, under this measure, will replace elective assessors whose lopsided and unfair assessments have been the root of Chicago's tax troubles...
...Manhattan firms participating in the U. S.-German building group which will revamp Rumania's housing are those of Maurice Blumenthal, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad's sub-Hudson River tunnels, and David M. Oltarsh, whose achievements include four Childs restaurants and Fifth Avenue's smartmart, Kurzman. Mr. Blumenthal and Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building...
...Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown by the fact that it has recently proved impossible for the Government at Vienna to borrow in Manhattan $100,000,000 urgently needed to revamp Austria's state railways, telegraphs, telephones...
...Assemblies. Last week the world of diplomacy grew crosseyed with looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...