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...called one of the intermediate worshipers. so I suggest it would be a good Idea if the government or the judges would get together and put a stop to this, my wife is beginning to be a cult fanatic or religious fanatic, . . . they don't comb or straighten there hair or use paint or powder-don't wear no silk stockings, just buy his paper he write and he tell them to get all in the cult, he is going to give all colored people work, if you follow him you will have fine automobiles and everything...
...straighten out the city's muddled finances Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had sent to the State Legislature an emergency economy bill giving him temporary blanket power to reorganize New York City's government, to fix salaries arbitrarily, to declare null & void any provisions of the city charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn...
...plan, as was announced in October, is to straighten the present sharp curve of the river opposite Soldiers Field and to put a bridge across the new bed. This bridge will be built on the dry land on the Boston side of the projection formed by the curve and the channel dug under it after the bridge is completed...
...whose International Harvester books he audited. Twenty years ago Harold McCormick and his wife (the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick) were bearing the financial brunt of Chicago's opera performances. The deficits were enormous, the affairs badly tangled. Mr. McCormick thought that practical, hard-working Herbert Johnson might help straighten things out. Professionally unacquainted with music and musicians, a Lockport, Ill. native with only routine office experience, Herbert Johnson soon got a taste for prima-donna intrigues and backstage excitement. He had worked up to become vice president and business manager of Insull's Civic Opera Company when disaster...
Potent people were popping in and out of No. 820 Park Ave., Manhattan every day last week. Governor Lehman had traveled down from Albany to try once again to straighten out Mayor O'Brien's fumbled finances. Bankers were summoned to the Governor's home to talk about loans. President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was pumped to see if he was bluffing about moving to New Jersey (TIME, Sept. 25). If Mr. Whitney was not bluffing it was plain that the tax schemes cooked up by bumbling Mayor O'Brien...