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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, they were Senator Robert Johns Bulkley and oldtime George White. As the National Democratic Chairman of 1920 (when Franklin Roosevelt ran for Vice President), Mr. White was entitled to a seat beside the President. To Senator Bulkley, however, the President gave his nod: "The cavalry captain of the old days who protected the log cabins of the Northwest is now supplanted by legislators, men like Senator Bulkley, toiling...
...President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without threatening the seat of Majority Leader Barkley. The President and Senator Logan had both nobly refused "to traffic in judicial appointments...
...except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government and set up Hankow as their de facto capital. Last week, Japanese warships were within 135 miles of this Yangtze River city and most ob servers agreed that it would be in Japanese hands before autumn frosts...
...York Stock Exchange seat sold for $80,000 last week, up 57% in three weeks. Brokers' loans, always the best index of speculative interest in the market, rose to $537,000,000, a $22,000,000 increase in two weeks. Trading on the Exchange, however, turned down last week in the reaction which Wall Street always expects as speculators cash in their profits. One day sales volume hit the highest point since October 29, (2,774,320); two days later volume tumbled to the lowest in three weeks (592,300). Dow-Jones industrial averages at week...
Bill Martin, whose father is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, joined the liberal group of Paul V. Shields. Edward Allen Pierce and John W. Hanes soon after he bought an Exchange seat in 1931, has since lived quietly at Manhattan's Yale Club, studied steadily at the New School for Social Research. When the reform group gained control of the reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some...