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Died, Garvin Denby, 56, retired motor truck tycoon, brother of the late Teapot Dome Scapegoat Edwin Denby, son of onetime U. S. Minister to China Charles Denby; after an appendectomy; in Amityville...
Gyrations of the stockmarket had made Coolidge the saint of prosperity and Hoover the scapegoat of hard times. Their Democratic successor professed to be completely indifferent to stocks' ups & downs. In fact President Roosevelt seemed almost glad about last week's shoot-the-chutes. He felt that values had been climbing at an abnormally rapid rate, with speculators whooping up prices for quick easy profits. This rise had hampered the progress of the New Deal. Industries, beguiled by "prosperity" stock quotations, were reluctant to submit recovery codes to Washington. A thoroughgoing deflation of overspeculation seemed wholesome and proper...
...acquitted. Russia faced a grave food shortage last winter at the time Oshkin was supposed to have been most active. The food supply in all large Russian cities is better now. Since Soviet executions take place in complete secrecy Moscow will doubtless never know whether its five scapegoat cooks are shot...
Last week the chief excitement in the world of education was provided by that horrendous figure, that national scapegoat. THE BANKER. He was twice flayed...
...Scapegoat of the Benes agreement, according to news from Teheran, is Abdol Hussein Khan Teymourtache whom the Shah has dismissed from office as his Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State. Twenty-two years ago, long before Reza Shah Pahlevi usurped the throne, young Abdol Teymourtache, a clerk in the Persian Finance Ministry, was picked for advancement by the then U. S. Fiscal Adviser to Persia, W. Morgan Schuster. Young Abdol rose steadily to No. 1 court rank...