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Impetuous Mayor McCloskey, onetime prizefighter, had invited B. E. F. leaders to Johnstown to reorganize their forces retreating from Washington. His invitation was also accepted by the B. E. F. rank & file. Almost overnight an encampment of some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city...
Trophy v. Gillette. During recent years the unharmonious razor industry has become a lawyers' paradise. Last week another suit sprang up. Trophy Towers Sales Corp. has engaged in the business of selling double-edged blades in slot machines. It used to buy its blades from Trophy Blade Co., half interest in which was held by AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. When AutoStrop and Gillette merged the remaining half interest was acquired. Trophy Blade Co. dissolved. Last week Trophy Towers Sales Corp. brought a $30,000,000 damage suit against Gillette and 19 of its officers and directors. It charged that...
...dark and troubled jungle of legislation and went home to rest until after the elections. For 224 days-the longest stretch since 1922-a Republican Senate and a Democratic House had been groping and stumbling, hacking and thrashing through the thickest set of national problems that ever sprang up in the U. S. in peacetime. Midnight adjournment found the Senate mouthing over Prohibition, the House swapping political wisecracks and President Hoover absent from the Capitol...
Reaction Rampant. The blazing riots sprang, many Germans thought, from smoldering popular resentment at decrees and orders daily rushed into effect by Germany's new Cabinet, many of them over the signature of President von Hindenburg...
When the babble hushed and a Roman Catholic priest had had his turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety-Six, S. C. When he set out to "clean up the G. 0. P., South" in 1929. President Hoover laid his political curse on the Tolbert regime in South Carolina, favoring instead the J. C. Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert...