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...much interested in the proposition of Clem Sputter in his little "apple butter stirrers" in TIME, Sept...
...CLEM SPUTTER (Hugh J. Crossland) Marion, Ohio Nice To Be Glad...
...give the personable young commissioner a resounding welcome. When he finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the speech left its hearers "grumpy." No public rebuttal developed, the bankers retiring in groups to their offices to sputter such redundant epithets as "inconsistent meddler," "impractical reformer," "theoretical logician...
Back to London hurried Mr. Duff Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible...
Harley Lyman Clarke continued to sputter on the sidelines last week after the 77B petition was accepted. Meanwhile Mr. Odium, holding 40% of the company's debt, prepared to take an active hand in remodeling the power pyramid into what the Public Utility Act of 1935 calls a "demonstrably useful" holding company...