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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States...
...Virginia's Democratic primary last week, Carter Glass Jr. lost out for the State Senate, but Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, won his race. It was the first try for each...
...America realized that this was our war from the start") and bent their energies to help. When Allied purchasing agents in the U. S. began fruitlessly bidding against one another, the Morgans became central purchasing agent to the Allies, and Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius (whose Son Edward was to become chairman of U. S. Steel 21 years later) bought $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for shipment to England and France...
Willie Long Bone learned English at a Government school, fathered a son who graduated from Drake University. Recently Professor Charles Frederick Voegelin of DePauw University discovered Willie on his 80-acre allotment in Oklahoma, brought him to Ann Arbor for the summer session. Willie has already made some 50 phonographic recordings of Delaware songs and tales. Between performances he walks around the University of Michigan campus in faded overalls, a floppy straw hat. For his singsonging he gets $2 a day and expenses...
...Author. William Blake is a small, garrulous man of 45, who was brought up in St. Louis, Chicago and Manhattan, the son of an army surgeon and descendant of a long line of atheists. A boy prodigy in mathematics and history, he quit school at 15 to become secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed...