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...Shortest term (two years) went to Ralph Waldo Morrison, Texan utilitarian, whom President Roosevelt sent to the London Economic Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does...
...sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work, but I wanted to make more. You are on the run all the time, but after a few bumps you learn the shortest way from one loom to another, and how to save steps. I feel all right, tired, but nothing serious. I guess it would be easier, though, if we got more nourishing food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese...
...miles of electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road with enormous coal tonnage, is proud of a ratio between outgo and intake on operations...
...session turned out to be the shortest in Danish history. The red-bearded Premier, who was once head of the Danish cigar-sorters' union, had determined to pass the devaluation issue back to the voters. The voters who had called on the King, the radical farmers, he knew would vote against him. Though his Government was under no compulsion to face an election for another year, he last week got a decree from hard-jawed King Christian proroguing Parliament, dissolving the lower house (Folketing) and calling for new parliamentary elections...
Obscure by preference and by the nature of his functions, and an officer of the University unknown to students who followed the relatively straight and narrow path, was Matthew Luce '91, Regent. On Monday, July 1, the University News Office published the shortest release it has issued: "The resignation of Matthew Luce '91 as Regent of Harvard was announced today. Mr. Luce has been Regent since...