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...Treasury expenditures since 1921. He is responsible to Congress alone, interprets Congressional law with literal exactness. He was appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election of 1918 to its first major Congressional comeback since the debacle of 1912. But politics do not sway his decisions. By law he holds office for 15 years, can be removed only by joint resolution of Congress or impeachment, is ineligible for reappointment. Personally affable, with eyes of merry blue, he speaks in a slow, quiet voice. Iowa-born, he was educated in Nebraska, practiced law there. Washington...
...away in Hastings the dogs were barking sharply. Delegates to this year's convention of the British Labor Party cheered violent, scrubby-mustached David Kirkwood, M.P. when he attacked Governor Norman's quiet fiscal sway over the City as "a more effective Dictatorship than Hitler's in Germany or Mussolini's in Italy!" Warmed up by Dave Kirkwood, the Conference passed a resolution pledging the Party to oppose any return by Britain to the gold standard. Fresh cheers broke out when fiery Ben Tillett, a leading agitator in the first and only British General strike (TIME...
Calvin Coolidge died. John Patrick O'Brien became Mayor of New York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
...than it was 13 years ago there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming 1920's. Not content with what beer might hand him Mr. Levis has spread his net, Depression as he used Prohibition: to enlarge his sway. Last October he bought Root Glass Co. of Terre Haute, Ind. Last week he bought Hemingray Glass Co. of Muncie. Ind. and also O'Neill Machine Co. of Toledo, maker of glass blowing machinery, adding to Owens-Illinois' large and ancient holdings of glass machinery patents. Last week...
...cannot soothe them. The lecture speaks more and more slowly, his words finally arriving in a heaving rhythm which leaves the Vagabond with faint shudders. The class closes, and he wanders forth, counting the brown boards in the hall. He enters the local cinema, where refractory shapes sway in a concatenation of primordial emotions which is the very essence of ennui. Lights go by; imbeciles speak. The streets are black, and suddenly he is in the four-poster once more. The light goes...