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...Treasury will call its lowest coupon bonds of all-the pre-War 2% Consols and the 2% Panama Canal issues. The saving in debt service will be only a trifling $13,500,000 annually. But that was not Mr. Morgenthau's prime purpose. In one of the slickest Treasury moves in history, he was hatching not one bird but four...
...Government entrusted its case to Robert Houghwout Jackson, 43, an able but little known small-town (Jamestown, N. Y.) lawyer who was made general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue last year. Mr. Mellon hired Frank J. Hogan, 58, one of the smartest, slickest, most successful lawyers in Washington...
...calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting, he hits a goldfish bowl. The innocent owner of the kidnap apartment, who happens to be the toughest and slickest criminal of them all, walks in and settles everything so well that the police arrest him, shoo the others away...
...Bronx. "Mystery man of Roosevelt's Black Chamber" is Frank C. Walker, until lately treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. "Together with Farley and Flynn, he is a tacit reminder that Roosevelt's strongest single element of strength is the Catholic Church. . . ." Observer casts his vote for "slickest politician in the Cabinet and probably in the entire country, Roosevelt alone excepted," to Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce...
When a bold thief strolled into Manhattan's Continental Bank & Trust and filched $500,000 of Government bonds one fine day last autumn, the underworld from the Bowery to the Barbary Coast agreed that it was the slickest job of the year (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week the thief was still at large but Continental's bonds turned up in Texas. San Antonio's $2,000,000 Commercial National Bank had them in its portfolio. When San Antonio's citizens learned this they rushed for their deposits; the bank closed. Few days later the bank...