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...Meeting for a three-day session at Atlantic City, the Financial Advertisers Association fairly oozed Faith, Confidence & Recovery. President Leslie G. McDouall of the New Jersey Bankers Association keynoted: "I am satisfied that the opportunities are just as great today as they were in the so-called boom period." From President Frank F. Brooks of Pittsburgh's First National Bank popped a curious suggestion for the "most gigantic advertising campaign America ever saw, regardless of expense, to promote economic literacy. . . . a campaign that will draw the sharp line between right and wrong economics...
...when this climax to the three-day aerial spasm finally arrived, vengeful Colonel Turner was sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same...
...emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone...
...Johnson and its employes would end when President Johnson opposed the 30-hr. week. Last year after May Day, while Communists were parading dourly elsewhere, Mr. Johnson's workers cheered ecstatically at a gradually in his honor. Grateful, Chairman L. Johnson announced that each worker could have a three-day vacation...
...slow legislative pace-and somehow he was being held responsible (TIME, April 22). He realized that a crisis was at hand, for two spiced goblets threatened his legislative program: 1) the baseball season was scheduled to open that afternoon in Washington, and 2) members were agitating for a three-day recess over Good Friday...