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Sounding very much like a Republican candidate on the stump Mr. Strawn wanted the Democratic President to: 1) balance the budget; 2) stop trying to "spend our way to prosperity"; 3) hold relief expenditures down to the minimum; 4) announce that the emergency is over; 5 ) request no more emergency legislation; 6) stop tinkering the dollar...
...lately complained to friends that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation...
Finally convinced that the outlook was desperate, the Stewart-Warner management yielded. Last June six new directors were elected, including such potent Chicago names as Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, American Telephone & Telegraph director, Lawyer Ralph Shaw, shrewd, hard-bitten member of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, Robert J. Dunham, close associate of the late Jonathan Ogden Armour. But because no one relished the idea of having Inventor Zerk tearing his thick black mane at directors' meetings, a temporary coalition was formed to defeat the Zerk slate with one exception. To soothe Mr. Zerk's temper, they made...
...best looking member of the Hoover sub-Cabinet, a product of Chicago and Princeton (1920) whose mind and manners are as accurate and pleasant to behold as his superb golf game. Before going into the banking business (Field, Glore & Co.) he was an attorney (Winston, Strawn & Shaw), never worked for Quaker Oats Co. of which his father was executive committee chairman. He was called to Washington last spring when his fellow Princetonian, Walter E. Hope of New York, resigned. Of late he has been giving most of his time to settling tax accounts with insolvent taxpayers. His purpose wherever possible...
...opening device of summarizing his characters by showing a boy taking over a newspaper route on Laurel Avenue, being told by his predecessor the stories behind the house fronts. These include the Curry household where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry...