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...years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years and the bitter years that followed. He wangled naval appropriations, formed a lasting friendship with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, became the biggest Big Navy man in the Democratic Party. When he took office as Secretary, Washington's admirals breathed easier...
...Bull Moose ticket of 1912, put his name up on the door without a by-your-leave to anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest declaration of war yet made on Franklin Roosevelt. They said...
Last week, unable to effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...
Caught between AAA pig purges and the historic drought of 1934, the pig population of the U. S. took a mighty tumble. In 1933, when little pigs first got the attention of Franklin Roosevelt's planned agricultural economy, the porker crop was a whacking 84,200,000. For 1935 the crop fell to 55,086,000 and pork prices soared (peak: $10.95 per cwt. in September). Since then the crop has increased every year...
Author Miller took cannibalism much more easily in his stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...