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Bankers big & little know perfectly well that their titular leader at this time should be above reproach, unjustified though the reproach may be. But many feel Banker Hecht's long devotion to ABA affairs should be duly rewarded. No one denies that the swart little Bavarian from Ansbach with the slick black hair and the cropped mustache is a banker born. After a short training in Chicago he went to New Orleans, was a bank president at 33. But whether the ABA will break tradition to pass by Mr. Hecht at 49 is likely to be a hot question when...
Thus last month did Sir Henri Deterding, swart, dynamic head of Royal Dutch-Shell, shrug off the possibility of a world oil parley in view of the low estate...
When Franklin Roudybush spoke those words in Washington last week, he was simply echoing a general observation made by countless men and women since March 1933. But short, swart, button-eyed Mr. Roudybush differed from most of the others in that he proposed to do something about...
Since the Chilean peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...