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KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...Government. Thoroughly out of temper, NRAdministrator Johnson appeared at Portland, told the Pacific Advertising Clubs' convention: "It is not good business?it is not good Americanism, it is merely madness to say that any set of our people cannot sit down around a table without violence or bloodshed. Strikes are a necessary evil, but, like wars, they never got anything for anybody?unless it was bloodshed and black eyes." Thankfully the General added: "Strikes are happily no longer NRA babies...
When Wall Street found that the President and Congress were going to impose stock exchange regulation regardless, it began pulling wires. It wanted a place for one of its own among the five commissioners who will boss exchanges and administer the Securities Act-a man who could temper the New Deal's belief that all boomtime deals were deliberate snares for the public, that all speculation was evil, that all stock profits were graft, that all "money changers" belonged rightly in Hell...
...good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into foreign currencies of interest on her medium and long term debts, including the Dawes Loan 7% and the Young Loan 5½% series; but 2) all interest payments on the Dawes & Young...
...Yank to another Yank, permit me to assure you that I'm holding my temper with both hands so as to be able to address you an informative and courteous letter, apropos your reported "honors" for that Sweinic--, Herr Dekter Ernst Hanfstangl, and so writing you wholly upon the assumption that you and your confreres simply don't yet know, inst what sort of a proper Hanfstaengl...