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Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian...
...into the building trades and the industries that supply building materials, money from private bank accounts rather than from the public treasury. As with many another recovery measure, the National Housing Act looked invincible on paper. To attain its objective, attacks were aimed along three lines: 1) As a stopgap until the rest of the program could be started, citizens were to be encouraged to remodel and repair their houses. This was to bring out perhaps $1,000,000,000 of private capital. The Government was to set up a Home Credit Insurance Corp. to insure banks and other accredited...
...their working wage during layoff periods. Unlike most labor insurance schemes this one called for no contributions from workers. The money was to come entirely out of operations, was to be guaranteed by $1,000,000 out of surplus. "This is not a hard-times stopgap," said President Wrigley. "The idea is to give employes the same 'backlog' of income that stockholders have in the surplus of the company." Wrigley Co. surplus at the end of 1933 was $34,599,000; the company's net earnings last year were $7,528,000, half a million better than...
...realized that for legal lore, for private integrity and public highmindedness, President Roosevelt could not duplicate Senator WTalsh as an Attorney General. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt at first try. He appointed Connecticut's Homer Stille Cummings, 62, only as a stopgap, to have a full Cabinet slate at the inaugural. A Yaleman (1891), Mr. Cummings began his legal career in populous, wealthy Fairfield County, served three terms as Mayor of Stamford, today lives in Greenwich. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered, partly bald, he first came into national view as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
When Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Tammany's big-bodied, lantern-jawed stopgap, moved into New York City Hall fortnight ago, he promptly hung up in his private office a picture of Rev. Michael Earls who had taught him English at Holy Cross College. Last week the O'Brien English continued to make front-page news as veteran reporters, accustomed to the neat nothings of James John Walker, attempted to extract sense from the new Mayor's utterances...