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...attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife...
...Changes. GM began customer research during the teapot tempest over freewheeling. Every executive in the industry had positive ideas on the subject; Buck Weaver, then on Alfred P. Sloan's personal public relations staff, wondered what the public thought. On his own he sent a questionnaire to a few hundred automobile owners. Some 60% voted for freewheeling. Then a few months later a second questionnaire showed that only 50% wanted it on their cars. GM abandoned freewheeling. It still took Weaver some time to persuade the company that a regular customer research department was warranted. Allowed...
...claims that the recent outburst is "more than a tempest in a teapot" resulting from the local politicians' desire to protect their system from the inroads of the type of scientific municipal government recently sponsored by Dean Landis in the Plan E charter referendum...
More than a routine teapot tempest, this controversy stirred art professionals in the U. S. to weighty social thoughts, produced such ringing cries as that of Editor Alfred Frankfurter in Art News: "There is involved here a principle which far transcends the museum purchase. ... It is the principle of the right of a cultural institution ... to exist on behalf of the public without political interference or dictation." Meanwhile, political interference and dictation throve mightily over half the continent of Europe. Critics these days are inclined to credit Adolf Hitler with intense political intelligence, but to a big majority...
Elected new president of the A. B. A. was dapper Frank J. ("Million-Dollar") Hogan of Washington, "lawyer's lawyer," whose defense clients in suits brought by the Government have included the late Oilman Edward L. ("Teapot Dome") Doheny and Andrew William Mellon.. President Hogan's first act was to ask for a committee to defend citizens, "poor or rich," from invasion of liberties guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights (first ten Constitutional Amendments...