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...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
Sends Note to Rostrum...
Reminding his pupils that it was not university men but illiterates in the streets who raised Adolf Hitler to power, Herr Streicher, no university man, flayed learning as "academic twaddle," screamed: "I am no academic lecturer, but I shall lower myself for once to speak from an academic rostrum. ... It is no honor to me to speak here. But this room is honored by my presence...
Died. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 65, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; of a heart attack; in Port Deposit, Md. The only avowed candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Republican Convention in 1932, he was forcibly ejected from the convention rostrum when he attempted to withdraw his name and substitute that of Calvin Coolidge...
Last week Chairman Bartlett announced from the rostrum that Broker Sisto had been suspended because he was "guilty of conduct . . . inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." This is the Exchange's worst condemnation, the same it applied to Richard Whitney. In Joseph Sisto's case there was apparently no public-loss: he did only a limited brokerage business, carried no margin accounts, and was mainly interested in underwriting. The Exchange charged him with juggling J. A. Sisto & Co.'s books to make his personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging...