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...plenty of other mementoes of Goudy's career. In cases around the wall were the original drawings, matrices and specimen sheets of most of the 87 type faces. Most of the sheets were hand set and printed by Bertha Goudy who can match her husband's repu tation as a type designer with her own as the world's ablest woman printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy...
...Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose his week-end visitor, Charles Gates Dawes...
...reforestation amendment was car ried by an ample majority over the Smith objections. Interpreters rushed forward to claim this result as a personal triumph for Governor Roosevelt over Mr. Smith. "Oh, get out!" joshed the Governor at this suggestion. Small though the refores tation issue was, however, it did serve to remind people that Mr. Smith had yet to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy. The best guess was that Mr. Smith was dissatisfied with Governor Roosevelt's Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that...
...Hills conservation committee, of the Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without the support of "Judge" Reiter, the Wilbur plan could admittedly get nowhere - and "Judge" Reiter, an "oil oyster" (i. e., an operator who takes the threat of government dic tation as so much salt water), was not quick to give his support. Lyons Act. Last year the California legislature passed the Lyons Act, designed to limit oil production indirectly by limiting the production of the natural gas which .forces the oil to the surface. The state's efforts...
...that relativity has set up a definite connection between electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the field of attraction would emit radiation; that "gravi-tation simply represents a continued effort of the universe to straighten itself...